Israel gfmd fact Sheet

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Israel GFMD Fact Sheet
Overview of Participation:

COUNTRY	BELGIUM 2007	PHILIPPINES 2008	GREECE 2009	MEXICO 2010	SWITZERLAND 2011	MAURITIUS 2012	SWEDEN 2014
Israel	x	x	x	x	x		x

Representatives in the annual meetings:

GFMD	Delegate	Position	Organization
BELGIUM 2007	MERON Daniel	Director	Ministry of Foreign Affairs Int. Organizations and Human Rights Department
PHILIPPINES 2008	GLASSMAN Sharon	Chief of Staff	Ministry of Immigrant Absorption
	MANTVER Arnon	JDC- Israel; Director CIMI- Chairman	American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
	PINS Daniel	Director	American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
GREECE 2009	BEN- MOUSTAKI Joseph	Deputy Permanent Representative	Embassy of Israel in Greece
	BEN- TURA Eli	Counselor	Ministry of Foreign Affairs
	PINS Daniel	Director; Immigrant Integration	American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
	MANTVER Arnon	Director	American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
MEXICO 2010	PINS Daniel	Director; Immigrant Integration	American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
	GOLAN Eldad		Embassy of Israel in Greece
	AARON Ram		Embassy of Israel in Greece
SWITZERLAND 2011	LECHNO- YAAR Ron	Ambassador &Permanent Representative	Permanent Mission of Israel to the UN in Geneva
SWEDEN 2014	BACHMAN Isaac	Ambassador	Embassy of Israel in Sweden
SWEDEN 2014	ROTHMAN Uri	Deputy Head of Mission

Focal Points:

CAPITAL	Dr. (Mr.) Eli Ben-Tura	Minister & Coordinator of Sustainable Development Division of International Organizations Ministry of Foreign Affairs 9 Yitzhak Rabin Blvd. Kiryat Ben-Gurion Jerusalem 91035	Tel: +972 25303722 Fax: +972 25303710 BenTura.Eli@mfa.gov.il
CAPITAL	Mr. Ilan Cohn	Programme Officer CIMI – Center for International Migration and Integration, Jerusalem JDC Hill, POBox 3489, Jerusalem 91034	Tel: +972-2-6557260 Fax: +972-2-5667893 Mob: +972-50-202187 ilanc@cimi.org.il
GENEVA	Mr. Guy Azriel	Advisor Permanent Mission of Israel to the UN in Geneva 1-3, Avenue de la Paix 1202 Geneva	Tel: +4122 716 05 25 Fax: +4122 716 05 55 reporter3@geneva.mfa.gov.il
GENEVA	Mr. Omer Caspi	Deputy Permanent Representative Permanent Mission of Israel to the UN in Geneva 1-3, Avenue de la Paix 1202 Geneva	Tel: +4122 716 05 00 Fax: +4122 716 05 55 minister@geneva.mfa.gov.il
GENEVA	Ms. Jennifer Motles Svigilsky	Human Rights & Humanitarian Affairs Officer Permanent Mission of Israel to the UN in Geneva 1-3, Avenue de la Paix 1202 Geneva	Tel: +4122 716 05 06 Fax: +4122 716 05 55 Reporter2@geneva.mfa.gov.il

Participation in the Round Tables (RT):

Greece 2009:

Government Team member in RT 1.2: “Engaging diasporas and migrants in development policies and programs—Their role? Their constraints?”
Government Team member in RT 2.1: “Inclusion, protection and acceptance of migrants in society – linking human rights and migrant empowerment for development”.

Mexico 2010:

Government Team member in RT 1.1: “Partnerships for more regular and protected migration”.
Government Team member in RT 2.2: “Migration, gender and family”

Participation in the Thematic Meetings (TM):
Mauritius 2012:

Government Team Member in the High Level Forum “Harnessing Diaspora Resources for Development in Africa” (Mauritius, June 2012)

Sweden 2014:

Government Team Member in the 1^st Thematic Meeting “Operationalizing Mainstreaming of Migration in Development Policy and Integrating Migration in the Post-2015 UN Development Agenda” (Geneva, May 2013)

Financial contributions to the GFMD:

Israel has offered financial contributions to the GFMD as follows:

Greece 2009: USD 5.000 for Assistance with translation costs
Mexico 2010: USD 4.970 for translation costs
Sweden 2014: USD 5.000 for travel and participation costs of developing countries

Participation in the PFP (Platform for Partnerships):
Israel has contributed with 6 practices and policies:

Date completed: 21 November 2014

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