Israel/Palestine 06.06.2010 - 21.06.2010

Program IFIL.ch study trip to Israel/Palestine

09.06.2010
Tel Aviv

Touchdown in Tel Aviv
Meeting and discussion with Young Meretz Israel

10.06.2010
West & East: Tel Aviv & East Jerusalem

Introduction to Israel's history
Guided tour through Tel Aviv
Guided tour through East Jerusalem
Meeting with the Israeli-Swiss Association

11.06.2010
Jerusalem: Old & New

Guided tour through Jerusalem's Old City and Israeli neighbourhoods
Visit to Efrat settlement, shabbat dinner with Israeli Settlers

12.06.2010
International Institutions in Jerusalem (UN)

Visit to UNSCO Office
Dinner with deputy head UN OHCHR

13.06.2010
Bethlehem

Guided Tour through Bethlehem
Visit to Refugee Camp (Beit Sahur, Shuafat oder Beit Jibrin)
Stay over night with host family Bethlehem

14.06.2010
Ramallah: Emerging Palestinian Statehood

Visit to SDC Cooperation Office in East Jerusalem
Visit to Swiss Representation Office at the PA
Visit to Swiss Representation Office at the PA

15.06.2010
Jerusalem 2: Reflection day

Visit to Yad Vashem (Holocaust Memorial Museum)
Visit to the Israeli Foreign Ministry
Meeting with the organization "the Parents Circle"

16.06.2010
Hebron: Zero-sum game?

Hebron and the Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH)
Tour through Hebron with EAPPI?
Meeting with the Jewish Community of Hebron (David Wilder)

17.06.2010
North Wadi Yehudia

Wadi Yehudia Tour

18.06.2010
Golan

Visit to Kibbutz Malkia on the Lebanese border
Majdal Shams Tour
Majdal Shams Tour

19.06.2010
Sderot (Gaza) and Tel Aviv

Tour in Sderot
Briefing with IDF spokesman Maj. Mike Vromen
Meet-up with Young Meretz or Young Likud in Tel Aviv
Meeting with André Marti?

20.06.2010
Tel Aviv: Beach & Wrap up

Discussion with members from the Geneva Initiative
Meeting and debriefing at the Swiss Embassy in Tel Aviv

21.06.2010
Tel Aviv: Fly back

Fly back to ZRH