April 27, 2009

Akiva Tor, consul general of Israel for the Pacific Northwest Region, will speak at California State University, Fresno at 2 p.m. on Thursday, April 30.

Tor’s topic is “The Recent Israeli Election and Its Impact on the Peace Process.” He will speak to students, faculty and the public in the Leon S. and Pete P. Peters Educational Center located in the Student Recreation Center (Woodrow at Shaw Avenue).

Tor was named Consul General in August 2008. He was previously World Jewish Affairs Adviser to the President of Israel and began the World Jewish Forum, a presidential initiative for creating a pan-Jewish strategy for stemming assimilation and decline in Jewish life.

He has served as director of the Israel Economic and Cultural Office in Taipei and as deputy director for Palestinian Affairs. He was a Wexner Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and has written and lectured extensively on Jewish values in the foreign policy of Israel.

Tor’s appearance is sponsored by the Department of Political Science.

For more information, call Kent Karsevar at 559.278.6490