Prime Minister Pierre Mauray will visit Israel next year and attend the twinning ceremonies between the French city of Lille and Israel’s Safed. Mauroy told Safed Mayor Josef Nahmias, with whom he met earlier this week, that he will visit Israel as soon as possible after the countrywide forthcoming municipal elections next March. Mauroy is Mayor of Lille.
Nahmias said the Prime Minister also told him that the Franco-Israel dialogue will soon resume and that the Franco-Israel cultural commission, whose scheduled meeting last June was postponed by the French government because of the war in Lebanon will soon be reconvened.
Israel has energetically protested against the commission’s postponement which Israel’s Ambassador to France Meir Rosenne has termed “a freeze in Franco-Israeli ties.”
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