The Minister of the Interior, Edward DePedroagreed this Sunday in Israel to sign two collaboration agreements to provide relevant information on the genocide of Jews by Nazism and to share experiences on technological knowledge and the use of software linked to the efficient management of services within municipalities.
Peter’s paid tribute to the victims of the Holocaust during his visit to Jerusalem, where he made his commitment before the head of the World Shoah Commemoration Center Yad Vashem, Dani Dayanto sign a collaboration agreement with Israel to provide any relevant information on the genocide of Jews in Europe during World War II.
And he also met in Israel with the president of the Federation of Local Governments of that country, Haim Bibaswith whom it agreed to enter into a mutual collaboration agreement between the Federation of Local Governments of Israel and the Argentine Federation of Municipalities (FAM) to “share experiences on technological knowledge and the use of software linked to the efficient management of services within the municipalities “, was officially reported.
The meeting with Bibas was held “within the framework of the scientific-technological cooperation mission for water management in that country, which is made up of national ministers, governors, and representatives of 10 provinces from all regions of Argentina,” reported the Interior portfolio.
The minister said that it was “a very good meeting”, and reported on the forthcoming signing of the agreement “between both federations of municipalities”.
“Together with the Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Daniel Filmuswe will participate in a series of meetings with technology companies that not only apply their products to agriculture and water management, but also to services that facilitate people’s daily lives,” he added.
He also highlighted the good functioning of the municipalities of Israel in which, based on the use of technological tools linked to the optimization of services, “it is possible – he said – to access controls on issues such as waste collection, and the operation of the health and safety”.
“Everything works in an optimal framework to generate efficiency and better services. In the municipalities, they use technology to be efficient in local management and so that the services work better for their inhabitants,” explained De Pedro.
Israel is a parliamentary democracy with a multi-party system and separation of State powers and has local governments in each territory -similar to what happens in Argentina- that “grant the central government an institutional volume of great importance for the operation of at the national level,” highlighted the political portfolio.
De Pedro also visited the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he held meetings with Minister Yair Lapid and with the ambassador and deputy director for Latin America at the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Jonathan Peled.
In addition, during the tribute to the victims of Nazism, he said that “here we have seen the persecution, we have seen each one of the 6 million Jews murdered, and the cruelty of the concentration camps during the Holocaust“.
De Pedro toured the Yad Vashem Museum, where he was received by Dayan, with whom they descended to the lower level of the room to place a floral offering and fan the Eternal Flame, which continuously illuminates the place in memory of the victims of the Holocaust.
Dayan recalled that his father “was born in kyiv, in the Ukraine” and that “he always told me that we left Europe with a curse on our lips, we emigrated from Europe and from Israel because we are Zionists, because we believe that the State of Israel is the homeland of the Jewish people; but we left Argentina with a blessing on our lips: my father told me that all of what we are we owe to the Argentine Republic, which welcomed my father and grandfather as immigrants, as refugees, and He gave a decent life.”
He also thanked De Pedro for his offer to celebrate the collaboration agreement “with the national archives of the Argentine Republic, because our duty is to know what happened, collect each photo, each artifact that allows us to remember and access the truth about everything that happened in the Holocaust,” it was reported in a statement.
“We have more than 200 million documents, and four million eight hundred thousand names. We must get to that truth for the future, since we are approaching the time when there will be no living survivors (for natural reasons, unfortunately), and the documents They are going to be the witnesses that this inexplicable and unimaginable thing really happened,” he added.
The Yad Vashem World Shoah Memorial Center is the world’s leading Holocaust Museum and is frequented by world leaders during their official visits to the country.
Inside its headquarters, a visit was also made to the Children’s Memorial Monument, excavated in an underground cavern: it is a tribute to the approximately one and a half million Jewish children killed in the Holocaust.
It was exciting for me to receive @yadvashem a high-ranking delegation from my home country, Argentina. The delegation included 3 ministers and 8 governors, led by the interior minister @wadodecorrido pic.twitter.com/DboOcliWnp
— Dani Dayan (@AmbDaniDayan) April 24, 2022
The mission of scientific-technological cooperation in water management is integrated, in addition to De Pedro, by the heads of the portfolios of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Julián Domínguez; and Science and Technology, Daniel Filmus; as well as the Deputy Chief of Staff, Jorge Neme; and the head of the Federal Investment Council (CFI), Ignacio Lamothe.
The governors of Catamarca, Raúl Jalil; from Entre Ríos, Gustavo Bordet; from Formosan; Gildo Insfran; from Mendoza, Rodolfo Suarez; from Rio Negro, Arabela Carreras; from San Juan, Sergio Uñac; and from Santa Cruz, Alicia Kirchner.
These leaders and officials are joined by Adolfo Scaglioni, Minister of Water and Energy of La Rioja; representatives of Santiago del Estero and national senators and provincial technical teams.
At the official start of the tour, the delegation then moved to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to hold meetings with the director of the Political-Strategic Division, Aron Bar; and with the ambassador and deputy director for Latin America at the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Jonathan Peled; among other high officials of that country.
