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| Thursday, June 18 |
| Good morning! |
| It’s hard to believe that today is the final day of AJC Virtual Global Forum 2020. We hope you have enjoyed our programming thus far. |
| Today’s first session will begin at 12:00 pm ET (18:00 Berlin, 19:00 Jerusalem). |
| The session will open with an address by H.E. Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, Federal Minister of Defense of Germany. |
The program will continue with “The Transatlantic Relationship: Two European Perspectives,” a discussion, in partnership with the prestigious Munich Security Conference, on the current state and future of the critical alliance between the United States and Europe and the ramifications for Israel and the Jewish community, will feature:
- Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger, Chairman, Munich Security Conference
- Simone Rodan-Benzaquen, Director, AJC Europe
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| At 3:00 pm ET (21:00 Berlin, 22:00 Jerusalem) we’ll come together for our final session, which you won’t want to miss. |
| AJC CEO David Harris, whom the late Israeli President Shimon Peres described as “the foreign minister of the Jewish people,” will bring AJC Virtual Global Forum 2020 to a close by sharing his reflections on this week’s groundbreaking program, along with his vision for what’s next for AJC and the Jewish world. |
| To watch recordings of all AJC Virtual Global Forum sessions, please visit AJC.org/GlobalForum, where you can also register for today’s sessions if you have not done so already. |
Beginning 20 minutes before the session, please follow these steps to watch the program:
- Visit AJC.org/GlobalForum from your internet browser on your computer, tablet, or smartphone.
- When the large darkened video box appears on the webpage, you must enter your name and email address and click “Submit.”
- Please then press the play button that appears in the middle of the large box, and you will be entered into the program. If you do not hear any sound, please press “Click to Unmute” at the top of the video.
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| During yesterday’s debate, “Election 2020: Debating American Values and Interests,” the Max Fisher Annual Program, we heard from Antony Blinken, Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to Biden for President and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State (2015-2017), and KT McFarland, U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor (2017) and author of Revolution: Trump, Washington and “We the People,” as they discussed the competing visions that the Democratic and Republican parties will offer American voters come November. |
| Later on, U.S. Senator Cory Booker joined us to discuss the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd and issues of racial injustice in America in "Race and Equality in America,” the Leonard Greenberg Forum for Domestic Policy Issues. |
| To view videos of yesterday’s sessions and all other Virtual Global Forum sessions from throughout the week, click here. |
| Should you have any questions or require any assistance, please email [email protected]. |
| Thank you for joining us for the first-ever AJC Virtual Global Forum. We hope you enjoyed the week! |
| The AJC Global Forum Team |
