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WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS GLOBAL ACTIVITES REPORT

ROBERT SINGER CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

EXECUTIVE VICE-PRESIDENT

PRESENTATION TO !

WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

PARIS, 31 MARCH 2014

BUENOS AIRES REPRESENTATIVE OFFICE

REPRESENTATIONAL ACTIVITIES

WASHINGTON DC REPRESENTATIVE OFFICE

NEW YORK OFFICE - HQBRUSSELS OFFICE

JERUSALEM REPRESENTATIVE OFFICE

GENEVA REPRESENTATIVE OFFICE & LEGAL HQ


Ronald S. Lauder:

• US Vice President Joe Biden

• US Secretary of State John Kerry

• Dinner in Honor of Israel Ambassador Ron Dermer



Mark Levin WJC Advisor in Washington DC

• US Administration

Reinforce Contacts with:

• US Congress

• Foreign Embassies



“DC Blitz” (March 2014)

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National Security Council !

State Department !

Treasury Department (Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence)

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Ambassadors to Washington: Bulgaria, France, Hungary,

Israel, Poland, Slovakia !

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Congressmen Ted Deutch (D-FL), Eliot Engel (D-NY, ICJP chairman),

Brad Sherman (D-CA), Chris Smith (R-NJ), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY),

and Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD).


NEW YORK OFFICE - HQ

• Completed Move to New Office

• Showcase of WJC World-Wide

- CEO - CDO - CFO - CPO !

- CCO - General Council


• UN NGO Conference Amb. Ido Aharoni, Israel

Consul General in New York

• President of Lithuanian Community

• North American Section Board Meetings

• EAJC Delegation

Hosted:

NEW YORK OFFICE - HQ


Continual High-Level Contact With:• European Parliament

• European Commission

• European Council

• NATO

• Ambassadors to EU, NATO & Belgium

BRUSSELS OFFICE

• OSCE


• Michael Colson reactivated Geneva Representation

GENEVA REPRESENTATIVE OFFICE & LEGAL HQ

• United Nations Human Rights Council

• World Council of Churches

• Red Cross

• UN High Commission for Refugees

• World Health Organisation


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• Ministry of Strategic Affairs & International Relations

• Ministry of Diaspora • Ministry of Senior Citizens • Ministry of Energy, Water &

Regional Cooperation • Knesset (Presentations at Knesset Committee Meetings: Aliya Absorption & Diaspora Affairs)

Move to New Premises May 2014

JERUSALEM REPRESENTATIVE OFFICE

Regular Contact with: • Prime Minister’s Office • National Security Council • Ministry of Foreign Affairs

PROGRAMMATIC ACTIVITIES

WJC INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR REVIVAL

OF YIDDISH LANGUAGE & CULTURE

WJC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE

WJC Programs

Community Leadership Institute

Jewish Diplomats

Jewish Professionals Network

Global Campus Initiative (Students)

Cyber Space Task Force (High School)

POLICY ACTIVITIES

Diplomacy & Advocacy:

Washington DC

European Union

IRAN

POLICY ACTIVITIES

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NATO

National Capitals

Ronald S. Lauder Public Statements

POLICY ACTIVITIES

ANTI-SEMITISM

UKRAINE Visits, Contact with Community & Monitoring Situation

HUNGARY Ronald S. Lauder with Hungarian Foreign Minister Intensive Press Activity

GREECE Golden Dawn

POLICY ACTIVITIES

POLICY ACTIVITIES

ANTI-SEMITISM MONITORINGPOLICY ACTIVITIES

POLICY ACTIVITIES

Nazi Looted Art:

• Massive Press Coverage

• Heated Debate in Germany

HOLOCAUST LEGACY

• Keynote Speech

POLICY ACTIVITIES

POLICY ACTIVITIES

ISRAEL ADVOCACY

• Israel-Turkey Relations

• Global Coalition for Israel: Leading Role

• Co-Hosted Knesset Christian Allies Caucus “Night to Honour Our Christian Allies”

POLICY ACTIVITIES

POLICY ACTIVITIES

INTER-RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS

• Latin American Interfaith Meeting with Pope & Visit to Middle East

• World Council of Churches - Contact

• IJCIC: UN NGOs Briefing

• Israel Allies Foundation (Evangelicals)

POLICY ACTIVITIES

POLICY ACTIVITIES

January 2014

Israeli/Palestinian Talks

JEWS FROM ARAB COUNTRIES

• International Fund for Jewish and Palestinian Refugees

• WJC Israel/ICFR Symposium on Iraqi Archives

POLICY ACTIVITIES

Personal Visits, Meetings & Calls with

• Australia • Belgium • Canada • Chile

• Croatia • Czech Republic • Greece • Denmark

At EAJC General Assembly:

COMMUNITIES OUTREACH

• France • Lithuania • The Netherlands • Romania !• Russia • Slovakia • South Africa • Ukraine

• Macedonia • Moldova • New Zealand • Serbia !• Tajikistan • Uzbekistan

• Armenia • Azerbaijan • Belarus • Georgia !• Kazakhstan • Kyrgyzstan

53 WJC PRESS RELEASES since October 2013 (average 2-3 per week) !

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WJC quoted in over 5,000 articles (on average 40-50 per day) !

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in publications in English, French, German Hebrew, Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese, Indonesian… !

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and tens of thousands of online sources

PRESS & MEDIA ACTIVITIES

2013

over 4 million people reached via WJC Facebook page (40,000-50,000 average weekly reach)

SOCIAL MEDIA ACTIVITIES

October 2013 – March 2014 !

CAMPAIGN TO GROW FOLLOWERS !

200% Growth in last month !

LANGUAGES !

ENGLISH – FRENCH - HEBREW –RUSSIAN - SPANISH


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6000

12000

18000

24000

10/21/2013 — 3/25/2014


March 2014: 500,000 people reached in two weeks !

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HUNGARIAN DEPORTATION POSTING: 50,000 shares


PUBLICATIONS & COMMUNICATIONS

2013 GLOBAL REVIEW !

PROGRAM DEPARTMENT REPORT: December 2013 !

CEO PERIODIC REPORT: JANUARY & MARCH 2014 !

INTERFAITH UPDATE !

NEO-NAZI POLITICAL PARTIES UPDATE !

WEEKLY REPORT: 600 RECIPIENTS (AFFILIATES) !

DAILY NEWSLETTER: 15,000 RECIPIENTS DAILY

PUBLICATIONS & COMMUNICATIONS

GC4I CONFERENCE: LONDON (APRIL 2014)

!HOLOCAUST DAY AT UN:

NEW YORK (APRIL 2014)

WJC-ISRAEL DELEGATION TO LATVIA & ESTONIA (MAY 2014) (KNESSET CHRISTIAN ALLIES CAUCUS)

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UPCOMING ACTIVITIES

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WJC GOVERNING BOARD MEETING: BERLIN (SEPTEMBER 2014 t.b.c.)

!FEAST OF TABERNACLES

(EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS) CONFERENCE: JERUSALEM (OCTOBER 2014)

!INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH PARLIAMENTARIANS:

BERLIN (NOVEMBER 2014) !

70th ANNIVERSARARIES OF LIBERATION OF CAMPS:

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-KOSICHE, SLOVAKIA (29 AUGUST 2014)

- AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU (27 JANUARY 2015)

- BERGEN-BELSEN (25 APRIL 2015)

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