Building a Better Future Together

So close, yet so unfamiliar with each other - that’s how one could describe the EU and Israel. This week I went to Jerusalem to join a meeting of the EU and Israeli networks of students and young professionals willing to bring these two closer together. Meeting was the first step in a networking initiative by the Young Israeli Forum for Cooperation and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung – aiming to raise the knowledge on Europe and Israel, and consequently cooperation between two civil societies, through activities of young people. All this was discussed for 4 days in Jerusalem and will hopefully result in a set of concrete activities – with study visits for young people of different backgrounds from Israel to Brussels and, vice-versa their European counterparts to Jerusalem, as something where AEGEE could play a great role.

It was of course a memorable experience to visit Jerusalem – city where nations, religions and cultures have been meeting for centuries – now so bitterly divided by long lasting conflict and a rather new fence.