The Diplomat
The President of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, is travelling to Israel today, where she will hold meetings with political and business leaders from that country, with the aim of intensifying relations with that country and showing Madrid’s “great capacity” to attract investment and projects, according to the regional government.
The visit will last until tomorrow, Monday, during which Díaz Ayuso will be received in Jerusalem by the Israeli President, Isaac Herzog.
As the President of Madrid explained a few days ago, her trip also aims to strengthen ties with the Jewish community, which is “enterprising” and which “has historically been united with Spain”.
The visit, which had been in the pipeline for some time, comes days after the Barcelona City Council, chaired by Ada Colau, agreed to break off relations with Israel and suspend the city’s twinning with Tel Aviv, a decision that has provoked strong unease in the Jewish communities in Spain and has been the subject of much criticism in the Israeli media.
The trip is in addition to those that the Madrid president has recently made to the United States, Portugal, France, Italy and Belgium to “promote investment” in the region and establish collaboration agreements with various governments, which means that the community currently “accounts for 73.5% of the foreign investment that comes to Spain”.
