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MR JAN FIGEL
EU SPECIAL ENVOY FOR PROMOTION OF FREEDOM OF RELIGION
MISSION TO ISRAEL & PALESTINE
12 – 16 FEBRUARY 2019
Visiting Delegation
- SE Jan FIGEL
- Virginia Manzitti, Policy Assistant / Advisor
- Bernard Philippe, Advisor
TUESDAY 12/02/2019
JERUSALEM / TEL AVIV
18.00: Meeting with the MFA Head of Bureau for World Jewish Affairs and World Religions and his
team – Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Participants:
- Akiva Tor- Head of the Bureau for World Jewish Affairs and World Religions
- Sharon Regev- Director of Department for World Religions
- Hillel Newman- Director of Department for Jewish Communities
- Rodica Radian Gordon - Deputy Director General for European Affairs
- Zvi Tal- Head of Bureau for Europe Division
- Ariel Shafransky- Director for European Multilateral Organizations
Contact: Akiva Tor (MFA): 0506203968
20.00: Dinner at the EU Residence in Herzliya with representatives from civil society on relations
between State and religion, personal status issues.
Contact: Laura Goldstein, EU DELTA Participants:
- HoD Ambassador Emanuele Giaufret
- DCM/HoPS DELTA Benoit Chapas
- Mr. Mickey Gitzin The New Israel Fund - Executive director & Former Director of Free
Israel
- Yizhar Hess, the Executive Director of the Conservative Judaism movement in Israel, can be
contacted at 02-5658000
- Mr. Roie Ravitzky, Director - Religious Peace Initiative at The Mosaica Center for Religious
Conflict Transformation
- Ms Anat Hoffman – IRAC, Executive director of the Israel Religious Action Center (IRAC:
the legal and advocacy arm of the Reform Movement in Israel) and the chairwoman of
Women of the Wall
- Ms. (Adv.) Bana Shoughry, PhD Candidate, working on Gender, Religion, and the Law –
Hebrew University
- Mr Zeidan Atashi - Druze community, former MK
WEDNESDAY 13/02/2019
HAIFA / NAZARETH
09.00: Meeting with the
visit to the
and
11.00: transfer to Nazareth
12.30: Lunch in Nazareth - YMCA, 5079 St, Nazareth. Tel 04-608-1483
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Participants:
- Bishop Riyah Abu el-Assal, retired Anglican bishop of the Middle East,
- Rev. Hanna Kildani, Latin (Roman Catholic) Patriarchal Vicar for Israel,
- Mr. Atef Fahoum, Responsible for White Mosque in Nazareth,
- Judge Eyad Zahlka, Director General of Muslim Sharia Courts in Israel
Contact: Wadi Abu Nasser: 054495950
14.00: Tour of the Basilica of Annunciation, Mary's Well and the White Mosque in Old City of
Nazareth with Wadie Abunassar
Contact: Wadi Abu Nasser: 054495950
15.40: Excursion on Mount Tabor (historical site, inter alia site of the transfiguration of Jesus)
Greetings by Brother Tymoteusz Marszalek, Franciscan friar
Contact: Tymoteusz: 0509287315
16.40: Transfer to Jerusalem (2 hrs 30 min) for Mr. Figel,
,
Stay at the
Notre Dame Hotel in Jerusalem (Pontifical Institute Notre Dame of Jerusalem Center,
HaTsanhanim St 3, Jerusalem) Tel: 02-6279111
free evening
Start of EUREP program on the Palestinian side/Old City of Jerusalem
THURSDAY 14/02/2019
JERUSALEM / RAMALLAH
8.25-9.45
Meeting with Azzam Al Khatib – Director of Waqf in Jerusalem jointly with Imam
Mohammad Hussein + visit Al Aqsa
Location: Al Aqsa Mosque entrance from Lion's Gate, Old City of Jerusalem -
confirmed
10.15-11.00
Meeting with Chief Rabbi David Lau
Location:
Contact: Rachel Adler: 0504118208 (organised by DELTA)
Transfer to Ramallah
12.00-13.00 Meeting with Ambassador Isaa Kassissieh, PAL Ambassador to the Holy See -
confirmed
Location: Negotiations Affairs Department Office, Al Balou, Al Bireh
13.15-14.15 Meeting with Dr Amal Jadou, Assistant Minister on European Affairs- confirmed
Location: Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Expatriates, Ramallah
14.30-16.00
Lunch with Fr Dr Jamal Khader Daibes Rector of the Latin Patriarchal Seminary in
Ramallah
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Location: Azure Restaurant, Ramallah
Transfer to Jerusalem / EUREP
17.00-18.00 Meeting with HoD, Mr Ralph Tarraf – confirmed
Location: EUREP Office, Jerusalem
18.15-19.15 Meeting with David Neuhaus, Pontifical Biblical Institute - confirmed
Location: 3 Paul Emile Botta St. W. Jerusalem
Contact: 0547822843 -
xxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx
Back to Hotel – free evening
FRIDAY 15/02/2019
JERUSALEM
8.30-9.20
Meeting with Fr Francesco Patton, Franciscan Custos of the Holy Land,
New Gate, Old City of Jerusalem - confirmed
9.30-11.15
Tour in the old city with Luc Pareydt, Religious Adviser to the French Consul General
Meeting point the St Saviour's convent, Old City - confirmed
Contact: Fr Luc 0549931444
11.30-12.30 Meeting with the Armenian Chief Patriarchate, Archbishop Nourhan Manougian
Location: Armenian Convent, Old city - confirmed
Will be received at the entrance of the convent
Walk from Jaffa Gate to Notre Dame
12.45-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.00
Meeting with Rabbi Melchior
Notre Dame Hotel, Jerusalem
15.00 -16.00 Meeting with Archbishop Atallah Hanna, Greek Orthodox – confirmed
Location: Notre Dame Hotel, Jerusalem
Walk from Hotel to Jaffa Gate
16.30-17.30 Meeting with Msgr Pierbattista Pizzaballa, The Latin Chief Patriarchate
Latin Patriarchate, Jaffa Gate, Old City of Jerusalem
Contact: Mobile: 054 970 6400
19.30-21.30
Dinner hosted by Mr Ralph Tarraf
Location: HoD Residence in Jerusalem
Participants: - Mrs Nora Arsenian Carmi, former Director of Kairos Palestine
- Dr Mustafa Abu Sway, Prof. Integral Chair for the Study of Imam Al-
Ghazali's Work at the Holy Al-Aqsa Mosque and Al-Quds University
- Dr Mahdi Abdel Hadi, Director of PASSIA
- Dr Bernard Sabella, Professor and Ex. Sec. to International Christian
Committee
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- Dr Sari Nusseibeh, Professor at Al Quds University
Back to Hotel
SATURDAY 16/02/2019
BETHLEHEM
10.30-11.45 Meeting with Minister Dr Ziad Bandak, Advisor to President on Christian Affairs and
visit to
Church of Nativity and its recently rehabilitated mosaics – confirmed
Contact: Emad Nassar Mob. 0595888807
11.45-12.30 Lunch in Bethlehem
USEFUL CONTACT DETAILS
EU Delegation in Tel Aviv
Mr. Emanuele Giaufret
Office: + 972 3 600 09 01
Head of Delegation
Mobile: + 972 54 224 07 71
Mr. Benoit Chapas
Office: + 972 3 600 09 33
Head of Political and Press Section
Mobile: + 972 54 614 46 56
Mr. Erik Jessen
Office: + 972 3 600 09 43
Attaché
Mobile: +972 53 975 18 69
Ms Maria Markowska
Office: + 972 3 600 09 14
Political Officer
Mobile: + 972 54 237 73 17
Ms. Sharon Offenberger
Office: + 972 3 600 09 11
Press and Information manager
Mobile: + 972 54 428 22 13
EU Delegation in Jerusalem
Mr. Pedro Almeida Dias, RSO
Mobile: +972 54 802 49 30
Mr. David Haynes, Security Manager
Mobile: +972 52 462 11 17
Mr. Ralph Tarraf, HoD
Mobile: +972 54 994 01 37
Mr. Peter Pristovnik, HoD Assistant
Mobile: +972 54 802 49 09
Mr. Tomas Niklasson, DHoD
Mobile: +972 54 802 43 28
Mr. Pierre Le Goff, Political Officer
Mobile: +972 54 802 49 22
Mr. Erik Bjork, Political Officer
Mobile: +972 50 917 61 11
Mrs. Nisreen Abdallah, Assistant
Mobile: +972 54 289 13 26
Visiting delegation
Mr Jan FIGEL
Mr Bernard PHILIPPE
- Nationality: SLOVAK
Nationality: French
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- Passport number: DJ3241284
- Passport no: 18FK84178
- Date of issuance: 02.07.2018
- issue: 22.11.2018
- Date of expiry: 02.07.2020
- expiry: 21.11.2028
- Telephone N°: +421 917 757 575
- Telephone N°: +32474255944
Ms Virginia MANZITTI
- Nationality: ITALIAN
- Passport number: YA8289733
- Date of issuance: 29.12.2015
- Date of expiry: 28.12.2025
- Telephone N°: +32473328143
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