Delegations

Mission

ELNET’s delegations have brought thousands of European policymakers and influential leaders to Israel over the last decade. While 80% of the U.S. Congress has visited Israel, only 10% of European counterparts have done so. The premise for establishing ELNET was in fact to turn this challenge into an opportunity, which ELNET has successfully done.

Our Participants

ELNET hosts top European parliamentarians and opinion makers, many of them visiting Israel for the first time ever. As a non-governmental, nonpartisan organization with offices in multiple countries, we are uniquely positioned to bring members of parliament to Israel from across the political spectrum. Our delegations feature top-level decisionmakers, including former prime ministers, sitting ministers and deputy ministers, high-ranking members of EU bodies, heads of key parliamentary committees, speakers of parliament, as well as other important influential leaders.

Impact

ELNET’s delegations are carefully planned and aim to provide participants with a powerful and motivating eye-opening experience helping shape an independent and well-informed view of Israel. ELNET accomplishes this by developing programs that include meetings with Israel’s most senior government officials and influential politicians, strategic tours and visits to sensitive security sites, briefings with independent policy experts, IDF personnel, and startups in the Israeli hi-tech ecosystem, tours of national infrastructure, meetings with minority groups that embody Israel’s commitment to democracy, visits to leading NGOs, and trips to places of historical significance.

Contribution

Each delegation is tailormade to fit the needs and interests of the participants. ELNET has curated delegations focusing on topics ranging from aerial defense, to cyber security, climate change, crisis management, innovation, war trauma prevention, and more. Whether by helicopter or by naval boat, ELNET takes delegations to sites and meetings where no other delegation has gone before. Participants have met with Israeli prime ministers, presidents, senior ranks of the IDF, top ministers, and innovators. These programs contribute to fostering strong relationships between top Israeli officials and leading opinionmakers across Europe.

Previous Delegations

For the first time in its history, ELNET organized a delegation composed of 13 European imams from four different countries: France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Italy. This unprecedented mission was carried out in collaboration with Imam Hassen Chalghoumi, president of the Conference of Imams of France. In a particularly tense context, as Israel faces a war imposed since the terrorist attacks of October 7 perpetrated by Hamas, this initiative takes on major symbolic and diplomatic significance.

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