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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Catholic University San Antonio of Murcia at the beginning of next September, through the chair of Political Ethics and Humanities, who heads the president of the Spanish Government, José María Aznar, who is the godfather of Israel's top leader.
Managing shut UCAM president, Jose Luis Mendoza, during their stay in Israel last week, where he developed a busy schedule to meet with the greatest political leaders, religious scholars of the country.
Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his great joy at the appointment, the more considering that his father, Benzion Netanyahu, a scholar of the Spanish Inquisition, was named Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Valladolid, and promised to personally coordinate the relations from now be put in place between UCAM and various universities in Israel.
Netanyahu, who has reiterated its top priority "security of citizens and negotiate a compromise peace with Palestine to end the historical conflict", is the current Prime Minister of Israel, a position he occupied among others before and ambassador to the United Nations.
Jose Luis Mendoza was invited to Israel together with Cardinal Antonio Cañizares, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments; Silverio Nieto, director of the Legal Services of the Spanish Episcopal Conference and director of the Department of Church Relations -State and Human Rights UCAM and Sadia Cohen, president of the Foundation Don Juan de Borbon Spain-Israel.
The invitation was made by the president and co-chairman of Keren Kayemeth of Israel (Jewish National Fund), an institution that eighteen trees planted on the slopes of Nazareth in honor of José Luis Mendoza and his wife, Maria Dolores Garcia, "for their efforts to promote understanding between Christianity and Judaism. "
The visit came after intense celebration in early May, Sephardic Cultural Week in UCAM.
The president of the Catholic University met, including political authorities, with Shimon Peres, President of Israel, Yuli Edelstein, president of the Parliament, in a brilliant homage to Sadia Cohen for his excellent leadership of the Foundation Don Juan de Borbon Spain-Israel in favor of relations between the two states, or Nir Barkat, Mayor of Jerusalem, who proposed that the UCAM open a campus in the city.
The meetings with religious leaders were with Moshe Shlomo Amar, Israel's Sephardic chief rabbi, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Custos of the Holy Land, Fouad Twal, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem and Elias Chacour, Greek Catholic Archbishop of Akko, Haifa, Nazareth and all Galilee, who offered to Jose Luis Mendoza mount UCAM campus in Haifa, which has around one million two hundred thousand inhabitants, where more than 11,000 young Catholics have to travel to Jordan each year to study.
In academia, the talks with the heads of Bar-Illan University, with Nobel laureates and leading globally in nanotechnology, to close agreements for research and for students of the UCAM can complete there training in the area of ​​economics and business management.
Moreover, the UCAM create the first European Sephardic Culture Center, led by David Rosen, International Director Rabbi Interreligious Affairs of the American Jewish Committee, as well as what will be the first International Chair of Jewish Studies, a library, synagogue and Yeshiva (school of Torah and Talmud).
The talks will continue in the coming days, including for close partnerships with the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, and along with Keren Kayemeth to carry out research work and studies upon the discovery of the second century Christian mosaics (the oldest in Israel) in the Valley of Megiddo, where UCAM 12,000 trees planted in memory of the twelve tribes of Israel and where, according to the Bible, will be judged all nations of the earth.
Source: UCAM
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