TFI Members

Membership

The growing membership of the Transatlantic Friends of Israel (TFI) currently includes 166 lawmakers from both sides of the Atlantic committed to strengthening the partnership between Europe, the United States, Canada, and Israel.

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Chair

Lukas Mandl

Vice Chair, European Parliament's Security and Defence Subcommittee

EPP Group

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President

Anna Michelle Asimakopoulou

Vice Chair, European Parliament’s International Trade Committee

EPP Group

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Vice President

David Lega

Member, European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee

EPP Group

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Vice Chair

Assita Kanko

Member, European Parliament's Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee

ECR Group

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Vice Chair

Dietmar Köster

Member, European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee

S&D Group

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Vice Chair

Petras Auštrevičius

Chair, European Parliament's Delegation for Relations with Afghanistan

Renew Europe Group

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Vice Chair

Alexandr Vondra

Member, European Parliament's Security and Defence Subcommittee

ECR Group

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Vice Chair

Carmen Avram

Member, European Parliament's Delegation for Relations with Israel

S&D Group

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U.S. Co-Chair

Brad Schneider

Member of the House of Representatives

Democratic Party

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U.S. Co-Chair

Andrew Garbarino

Ranking Member, U.S. House of Representatives' Homeland Cybersecurity Subcommittee

Republican Party

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Secretary General

Daniel Schwammenthal

Director, AJC Transatlantic Institute

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Lars Adaktusson

Member, Swedish Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee

Christian Democrats

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Ben-Oni Ardelean

Vice Chair, Chamber of Deputies' Foreign Affairs Committee

Vice Chair, PNL Party

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José Ramón Bauzà Díaz

Member of the European Parliament

Renew Europe Group

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Petra Bayr

Petra Bayr

Chair, National Council's Subcommittee for Development Cooperation

Secretary of the Foreign Affairs and the Human Rights Committees

Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs

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Member

Nicola Beer

Vice President, European Parliament

Renew Europe Group

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Dagmāra Beitnere-Le Galla

Deputy Speaker, Parliament of the Republic of Latvia

New Conservative Party

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Veronika Bellmann

Member Emerita

Member of the Bundestag 2002-2021

Christian Democratic Union of Germany

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Aurore Bergé

Chair, National Assembly’s France-Israel Friendship Group

La République En Marche

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Stefan Heinrich Berger

Member of the European Parliament

EPP Group

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Massimo Berutti

Member of the Senate of the Republic

Forza Italia

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Member

James Bezan

Vice Chair, House of Commons' National Defence Standing Committee

Conservative Party

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Gus Bilirakis

Ranking Member, U.S. House of Representatives' Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee

Republican Party

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Paola Binetti

Member, Senate of the Republic

Forza Italia

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Steven Blaney

Vice Chair, House of Commons' Official Languages Standing Committee

Conservative Party

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Member

Lord David Blencathra

Chair, House of Lords’ Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee

The Conservative Party

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Eva Blimlinger

Eva Blimlinger

Chair, National Council's Cultural Committee

Die Grünen

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Sandra Boëlle

Member, National Assembly's Foreign Affairs Committee

Les Républicains

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Member

Mike Bost

Ranking Member, U.S. House of Representatives' Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs Subcommittee

Republican party

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Member

Sandra Bubendorfer-Licht

Member, Bundestag's Interior and Homeland Committee

Free Democratic Party

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Marco Buschmann

FDP Spokesperson, Bundestag's Scrutiny of Elections, Immunity and Rules of Procedure Committee 

Free Democratic Party

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Christoph Bernstiel

Member Emeritus

Member of the Bundestag 2017-2021

Christian Democratic Union of Germany

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Member

Rosie Cooper

Member of the House of Commons

Labour Party

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Rodney Davis

Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Highways and Transit of the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

Republican Party

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Member

Salvatore De Meo

Member of the European Parliament

EPP Group

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Romana Deckenbacher

Romana Deckenbacher

Member, National Council's Defence Committee

ÖVP

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Member

Ted Deutch

Chair, U.S. House of Representatives' Middle East, North Africa, and International Terrorism Subcommittee

Democratic Party

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Marco Di Maio

Marco Di Maio

Member, Chamber of Deputies

Democratic Party

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Avi Dichter

Member, Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee

Likud Party

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Pierre-Henri Dumont

Member, National Assembly's Foreign Affairs Committee

Les Républicains

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Member

Gatis Eglītis

Deputy Chair, Parliament of the Republic of Latvia's European Affairs Committee

New Conservative Party

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Gabriel Elorriaga Pisarik

Vice-Chair, Congress of Deputies' International Development Cooperation Committee

People's Party

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Member

Eliot Engel

Member Emeritus

Chair, U.S. House of Representatives' Foreign Affairs Committee

Democratic Party

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Chair, TFI Austria

Martin Engelberg

Chair, TFI Austria

Vice Chair, National Council's European Union Affairs Standing Subcommittee

ÖVP

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Marcus Faber

Member, Bundestag's Defence Committee

Free Democratic Party

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Nicu Fălcoi

Chair, Joint Standing Committee for the Exercise of Parliamentary Control over the Activity of the Foreign Intelligent Service

Member, Chamber of Deputies' Defence, Public Order and National Security Committee, and the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Delegation

Save Romania Union Party

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Orit Farkash-HaCohen

Member Emerita

(Member of Knesset 2019-2020)

 

Minister of Science, Technology and Space

Blue and White Party

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Piero Fassino

Piero Fassino

Chair, Chamber of Deputies' Foreign Affairs Committee

Democratic Party

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Member

Fritz Felgentreu

SPD Spokesperson, Defence Committee of the Bundestag

Social Democratic Party of Germany

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János Fónagy

János Fónagy

Chair, National Assembly's Friendship Parliamentary Group with the State of Israel

State Secretary

Fidesz

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Member

Michael Freilich

Member, Chamber of Representatives' National Defence Committee

N-VA

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Annie Genevard

Vice President, National Assembly

Les Républicains

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Carlos A. Giménez

Ranking Member, U.S. House of Representatives' Transportation and Maritime Security Subcommittee

Republican Party

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Lord David Gold

Member, House of Lords

The Conservative Party

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Charles Grassley

Ranking Member, U.S. Senate's Judiciary Committee

Republican Party

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Meyer Habib

Secretary, National Assembly's Foreign Affairs Committee

Union of Democrats and Independents

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Robert Halfon

Chair, House of Commons' Education Select Committee

The Conservative Party

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Member

Tamás Harangozó

Deputy Leader, Hungarian Socialist Party Group in the National Assembly

Hungarian Socialist Party

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Jerzy Hardie-Douglas

Member, Sejm's Polish-Israeli Parliamentary Group

Civic Platform

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Member

Sharren Haskel

Chair, Knesset's Education, Culture, and Sports Committee

Co-Chair, Israel-Australia Parliamentary Friendship Group

New Hope Party

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Member

Zvi Hauser

Member, Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee; Chair, Israel-Japan Parliamentary Friendship Group

New Hope

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Member

Niclas Herbst

Vice Chair, European Parliament's Budgets Committee

EPP Group

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Jim Himes

Member, U.S. House of Representatives' Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

Democratic Party

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Member

Gero Clemens Hocker

FDP Spokeperson, Food and Agriculture of the Bundestag

Free Democratic Party

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Member

Monika Hohlmeier

Chair, European Parliament's Budgetary Control Committee

EPP Group

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Franz Hörl

Secretary, National Council's Environment Committee

ÖVP

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Anthony Housefather

Chair, House of Commons' Canada-Israel Interparliamentary Group

Liberal Party

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Bogdan-Gruia Ivan

Vice Chair, Chamber of Deputies' Information and Communication Technologies Committee

Social Democratic Party

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Member

Michał Jach

Chair, Sejm's National Defence Committee

Law and Justice

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Carmen Jeitler-Cincelli

Secretary, National Council's Foreign Affairs Committee

ÖVP

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Gyde Jensen

Chair, Bundestag's Human Righs Committee

Free Democratic Party

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Dusty Johnson

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives

Republican Party

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Bill Johnson

Member, House of Representatives' Energy & Commerce Committee; Co-Chairman, House Natural Gas Caucus

Republican Party   

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Rasa Juknevičienė

Vice Chair, European Parliament's Delegation to the EU-Armenia Parliamentary Partnership Committee,

EPP Group

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Member

Michał Kamiński

Deputy Speaker, Senate of Poland; Member, Foreign Affairs and EU Committee

Union of European Democrats Party

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Member

Karol Karski

Quaestor, Member of the Bureau of the European Parliament

ECR Group

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Andy Kim

Member, U.S. House of Representatives' Foreign Affairs Committee

Democratic Party

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Adam Kinzinger

Ranking Member, U.S. House of Representatives' Europe, Eurasia, Energy, and the Environment Subcommittee

Republican Party

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Rebecca Kirchbaumer

Member of the National Council

ÖVP

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Ondřej Knotek

Member of the European Parliament

Renew Europe Group

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Pascal Kober

FDP Spokesperson, Bundestag's Labor and Social Committee

Free Democratic Party

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Miroslav Kollár

Vice Chair, National Council's Culture and Media Committee

Za ľudí

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Rihards Kols

Chair, Parliament of the Republic of Latvia's Foreign Affairs Committee

National Alliance Party

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Member

Andrey Kovatchev

Vice President, European People's Party Group (EPP) in the European Parliament

EPP Group

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Member

Raja Krishnamoorthi

Member, U.S. House of Representatives' Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

Democratic Party

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Andrius Kubilius

Chair, European Parliament's Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly

EPP Group

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Gudrun Kugler

Deputy Chair, National Council's Human Rights Committee

ÖVP

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Andreas Kühberger

Secretary, National Council's Consumer Protection, and Agriculture and Forestry Committees

ÖVP

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Member

Ágnes Kunhalmi

Vice Chair, National Assembly's Culture Committee; Co-President, Hungarian Socialist Party

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Member

Damien Kurek

Member, House of Commons' Public Safety and National Security Standing Committee

Conservative Party

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Member

Ilhan Kyuchyuk

Vice President, ALDE Party

Renew Europe

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Member

Artur Łącki

Member, Sejm's Polish-Israeli Parliamentary Group

Civic Platform

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Member

Yair Lapid

Alternate Prime Minister; Minister for Foreign Affairs

Chair, Yesh Atid Party

Yesh Atid Party

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Paolo Lattanzio

Member of the Chamber of Deputies

Partido Democrático

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Member

Antero Laukkanen

Vice Chair, Christian Democratic Parliamentary Group in the Parliament of Finland

Christian Democratic Party

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Member

Constance Le Grip

Vice Chair, National Assembly's Cultural Affairs and Education Committee

Les Républicains

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Member

Miriam Lexmann

Member, European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee

EPP Group

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Member

Avigdor Lieberman

Minister of Finance

Chair, Yisrael Beiteinu Party

Yisrael Beiteinu Party

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Ted Lieu

Member, U.S. House of Representatives' Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee

Democratic Party

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Baron Livingston of Parkhead

Member of the House of Lords

Conservative Party

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Raimundas Lopata

Chair, Parliament of Lithuania's Committee for the Future

Liberal Movement

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Leopoldo López Gil

Vice Chair, European Parliament's Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee

EPP Group

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Antonio López-Istúriz White

Secretary General, European People's Party

Chair, European Parliament's Delegation for Relations with Israel

EPP Group

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Oliver Luksic

FDP Spokesperson, Bundestag's Transport and Infrastructure

Free Democratic Party

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Elaine Luria

Vice Chair, U.S. House of Representatives' House Armed Committee; Chair, Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs Subcommittee

Democratic Party

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Arminas Lydeka

Vice Chair, Parliament of Lithuania's European Affairs Committee

Liberals Movement of the Republic of Lithuania

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Lucio Malan

Chair, Senate of the Republic's Interparliamentary Friendship Group Italy-Israel

Fratelli d'Italia

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Gisela Manderla

Member Emerita

Member of the Bundestag 2013-2021

Christian Democratic Union of Germany

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Tracey Mann

Member, U.S. House of Representatives' Veterans Affairs Committee

Republican Party

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Johannes Margreiter

Johannes Margreiter

Member, National Council's Defence and Justice Committees

NEOS

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Member

Fulvio Martusciello

Substitute Member, European Parliament's Delegation for Relations with Israel 

EPP Group 

 

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Member

Brian Mast

Member, U.S. House of Representatives' Middle East, North Africa, and International Terrorism Subcommittee

Republican Party

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Marius Matijošaitis

Vice-chair, Parliament of Lithuania's European Affairs Committee

Freedom Party

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Member

Steve McCabe

Chair, Labour Friends of Israel

Labour Party

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Michael McCaul

Ranking Member, U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee

Republican Party

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Member

Attila Mesterházy

Deputy Chair, National Assembly's Foreign Affairs Committee; Deputy Chair, Hungarian-Israeli Parliamentary Group

Hungarian Socialist Party

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Koen Metsu

Chair, Chamber of Representatives' Inter-Parliamentary Union Belgium-Israel

N-VA

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Member

Merav Michaeli

Minister of Transport and Road Safety

Labor Party

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Jean-Michel Mis

Vice Chair, National Assembly's Cybersecurity and Digital Sovereignty Working Group

La République en Marche

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Marty Morantz

Member, House of Commons' Foreign Affairs Committee

Conservative Party

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Adrien Morenas

Vice Chair, National Assembly's Sustainable Development and Regional Planning Committee

La République en Marche

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Member

Alexander Müller

Member, Bundestag's Defence Committee

Free Democratic Party

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Frank Müller-Rosentritt

FDP Spokesperson, Bundestag's Foreign, Cultural, and Educational Policy Subcommittee

Free Democratic Party

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Pedro Navarro López

Member, Congress of Deputies

People's Party

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Maria Theresia Niss

Maria Theresia Niss

Member of the National Council

ÖVP

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Member

Peter Östman

Chair, Christian Democratic Parliamentary Group in the Parliament of Finland, Chair, Parliamentary Israel Friendship Group

Christian Democratic Party

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Andreas Ottenschläger

Andreas Ottenschläger

Vice-Chair, National Council's Traffic, and for Building and Housing Committees

ÖVP

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Member

Cem Özdemir

Chair, Bundestag's Transport and Digital Infrastructure Committee

Bündnis 90/Die Grünen

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Chris Pappas

Chair, U.S. House of Representatives' Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee

Democratic Party

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Member

Pina Picierno

Member, European Parliament's Delegation for Relations with Israel

S&D Group

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Member

The Rt Hon the Lord Eric Pickles

Chair, House of Lords' Conservative Friends of Israel

The Conservative Party

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Member

Lord Stuart Polak CBE

Member, House of Lords' EU Security and Justice Subcommittee

The Conservative Party

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Member

Andrei Pop

Member Emeritus

Secretary, Chamber of Deputies' Budget, Finance, and Banks Committee

Social Democratic Party

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François Pupponi

Vice Chair, National Assembly's France-Israel, and France-Armenia Friendship Groups; Vice Chair, Antisemitism, and Christians in the Middle East Working Groups

Territoires de progrès

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Gaetano Quagliariello

Member of the Senate of the Republic

Identity and Action

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Lia Quartapelle

Spokesperson, Partido Democrático

Member, Chamber of Deputies

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Mike Quigley

Member, U.S. House of Representatives' Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

Democratic Party

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Member

Päivi Räsänen

Member, Parliament of Finland's Intelligence Supervision Committee

Christian Democratic Party

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Luisa Regimenti

Luisa Regimenti

Member, European Parliament's Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee

EPP Group

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Member

Kathleen Rice

Chair, U.S. House of Representatives' Border Security, Facilitation, and Operations Subcommittee

Democratic Party

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Member

Frédérique Ries

Vice President, Renew Europe Group in the European Parliament

Renew Europe

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Gianfranco Rotondi

Member of the Chamber of Deputies

Forza Italia

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Member

Bert-Jan Ruissen

Vice Chair, European Parliament's Delegation for Relations with Israel

ECR Group

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Member

Wille Rydman

Member of the Parliament of Finland

National Coalition Party

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Antonio Saccone

Secretary, Senate of Republic's Regional Affairs Commission

Forza Italia

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Corinna Scharzenberger

Member of the National Council

ÖVP

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Ingjerd Schou

Member, Storting's Foreign Affairs and Defence Standing Committee

Conservative Party

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Member

Ofer Shelah

Chair, Knesset's State Audit Committee

Yesh Atid Party

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Mindaugas Skritulskas

Member, Parliament of Lithuania's Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with the Knesset

Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats Party

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Member

Sara Skyttedal

Chair, European Parliament's Delegation for Relations with Iraq

EPP Group

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Josef Smolle

Josef Smolle

Member of the National Council 

ÖVP

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Benjamin Strasser

FDP Spokesperson, Bundestag's Interior and Homeland Committee

Free Democratic Party

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Thomas R. Suozzi

Member, U.S. House of Representatives

Democratic Party

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Member

Sándor Székely

Member of the National Assembly

Independent

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Alexandra Tanda

Alexandra Tanda

Member of the National Council

ÖVP

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Rudolf Taschner

Rudolf Taschner

Chair, National Council's Education Committee

ÖVP 

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Member

The Rt Hon the Lord John Taylor of Holbeach CBE

Member of the House of Lords

The Conservative Party

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Riho Terras

Member of the European Parliament

EPP Group

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Dina Titus

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives

Democratic Party

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Dragoș Tudorache

Chair, European Parliament's Artificial Intelligence in the Digital Age Special Committee

Vice-Chair, Renew Europe Group

Renew Europe Group

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Moshe Tur-Paz

Member, Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee

Chair, Israel-Ireland Parliamentary Friendship Group

Yesh Atid Party

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Ágnes Vadai

Vice Chair, National Assembly's Defence and Law Enforcement Committee

Democratic Coalition

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Caroline van der Plas

Caroline van der Plas

Member of the House of Representatives

Leader of the Farmer-Citizens Movement

Farmer-Citizens Movement

Member

Silviu Vexler

Chair, Chamber of Deputies' Friendship Parliamentary Group with the State of Israel

Group of the National Minorities

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Petar Vitanov

Head, European Parliament's Bulgarian Socialist Delegation

S&D Group

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Member

Joël Voordewind

Member Emeritus

Vice Chair, House of Representatives of the Netherlands' Foreign Affairs Committee

Christian Union Party

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Member

Veronika Vrecionová

Member of the European Parliament

ECR Group

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Member

Christoph de Vries

Member, Bundestag's Interior and Homeland Committee

Christian Democratic Union of Germany

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Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Chair, U.S. House of Representatives' Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Subcommittee

Democratic Party

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John Weinerhall

Member of the Swedish Parliament

Moderate Party

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Marian Wendt

Member Emeritus

Member of the Bundestag 2013-2021

Christian Democratic Union of Germany

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Paweł Zalewski

Deputy Chair, Sejm's Foreign Affairs Committee

Civic Platform

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Javier Zarzalejos

Member, European Parliament's Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee

EPP Group

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Member

Emanuelis Zingeris

Chair, Parliament of Lithuania's Transatlantic Relations and Democratic Development Subcommittee

Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats Party

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Juan Ignacio Zoido Álvarez

Member, European Parliament's Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean

EPP Group

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Member

Željana Zovko

Vice Chair, European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee; Vice Chair, Delegation for relations with Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo

EPP Group

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Member

Milan Zver

Vice Chair, European Parliament's Culture and Education Committee; Vice Chair, Delegation for Relations with the Countries of South Asia

EPP Group

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