JETRO Chairman visited Israel and Palestine

JETRO Chairman met the Palestinian Prime Minister, H.E. Dr. Salam Fayyad and the Israeli Minister of Trade Industry and Labor, H.E. Mr. Binyamin Ben-Eliezer.

The chairman of JETRO, Yasuo HAYASHI, visited Israel and Palestinian Authority on July 25 to 27, 2010.
During this visit, the chairman HAYASHI met the Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority, H.E. Dr. Salam Fayyad and the Minister of Trade Industry and Labor of Israel, H.E. Mr. Binyamin Ben-Eliezer.
In addition, meetings with the Minister of National Economy Palestinian National Authority, H.E. Dr. Hasan Abu-Libdeh, the Director General of Ministry of Foreign Affair of Israel, Mr. Yossi Gal and CEO of Paltrade, Mr. Maher Hamdan has been held.

The aim of this visit was to promote the mutual trade between Japan and both, Israel and Palestine Authority.

Mr. HAYASHI is visited companies that represent each industry, such “Israel Aerospace Industry” and “Vertex Venture Capital” in Israel and “Sinokrot”, “Manasrah” and “Halaika” in the Palestinian authority.

Representatives of four Japanese companies were accompanied to this visit.