US embassy cable - 04TELAVIV2300

C O N F I D E N T I A L TEL AVIV 002300 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/21/2014 
TAGS: PHUM, PREL, SOCI, IS, GOI EXTERNAL 
SUBJECT: FM SHALOM LIKELY TO HEAD GOI DELEGATION TO OSCE 
ANTI-SEMITISM CONFERENCE 
 
REF: A. TEL AVIV 2125 
 
     B. SECSTATE 78071 
 
Classified By: Political Counselor Norm Olsen for reason 1.4 (b) and (d 
). 
 
1.  (SBU) MFA Minister Counselor for Anti-Semitism and 
Holocaust Remembrance Martin Flax told poloff on April 21 
that it is the MFA's "working assumption" that FM Silvan 
Shalom will head the GOI's delegation to the OSCE's 
Anti-Semitism Conference in Berlin April 28-29.  He 
anticipates the delegation will consist of six or seven 
"professionals."  Flax is also aware of several Israeli NGOs 
that will be participating in the conference, and he noted 
that they are not part of the official GOI delegation. 
 
2.  (SBU)  Flax also informed poloff that Israeli President 
Moshe Katsav will be on a state visit to Berlin at the time 
of the OSCE Conference and will attend a state dinner in 
Katsav's honor on April 28.  Minister-without-Portfolio Natan 
Sharansky told Ambassador Kurtzer April 20 that President 
Katsav requested that Sharansky attend the conference and 
there is a possibility he will do so. 
 
3.  (C) Flax said that the GOI would not be undertaking any 
"independent lobbying" on the contents of the draft 
declaration as this would be "tactically" unwise.  It would 
be more effective, he said, if Germany and the United States 
would "carry the ball" on the declaration. 
 
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