J'lem plans to bring non-Jewish US leaders to Israel

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Foreign Ministry unveils NIS 50m. plan to bring 3,000 young, non-Jewish US leaders to Israel to combat "industry of lies."

“Seeing is believing” is the philosophy behind a Foreign Ministry proposal to bring 3,000 North American non- Jewish campus influentials to Israel to show them the country and combat what ministry director-general for public diplomacy Gideon Meir called the “industry of lies” against the country.

Meir recently presented the NIS 50 million proposal to the Finance Ministry. The plan would move the government wholesale into the sphere of bringing opinion-makers and influentials to Israel, a role currently played on a smaller scale by various American Jewish organizations.

The idea, Meir said, was to bring to Israel college students who had been pinpointed as future leaders and opinion-makers, and give them a first-hand look at the country.

While the Foreign Ministry does bring over groups, mostly journalists, Meir said it was just a drop in the ocean compared to what was being proposed now.

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