Israel

2026 Programs

Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day: Halifax Program Monday, April 13 | 7 p.m. | Halifax Central Library, Paul O’Regan Hall | The event is free & open to the public. This program will be livestreamed in Atlantic Canada: Click Here Please join us for this year’s Yom HaShoah program honouring the…

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A Canada wide trip to Israel to celebrate it’s anniversay

ISRAEL @70, October 17-24, 2018 Save the date!  More information coming soon. Calgary, Atlantic Canada, Hamilton and Ottawa are going to Israel together! This fall, celebrate Israel’s anniversary with a mission culminating at the General Assembly in Tel Aviv. Witness first hand the impact our work has on the country we helped establish. Join GA…

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Tom Forrestall “35 Days in Israel” Gallery

These beautiful, original Tom Forrestall watercolours are all available for purchase at the Atlantic Jewish Council office, selling for $4100 each. Please contact Jon Goldberg, AJC executive director, for more information: jgoldberg@theajc.ca  

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Nova Scotia Missions Reunion

In Halifax on Saturday evening, June 8th, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs hosted an informal get-together of Nova Scotia-based alumni from past political, student leader, journalist and business leader missions to Israel. Particularly noteworthy was the attendance of Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter and Peter Stoffer, MP for Sackville-Eastern Shore. Matthew Godwin and…

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Advocacy in Atlantic Canada

Mark David CIJA, Atlantic Canada.  The Centre is truly a national Canadian organization, or, as is Canada’s motto, it exists “A Mari Usque Ad Mare” – “From Sea to Sea”. The domain of the Centre even stretches across the Mediterranean Sea all to way to Israel and the Centre staff in Israel. We all face the same…

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Embassies and Consulates

Embassy of Israel 50 O’Connor St. – Suite 1005 Ottawa, ON K1P 6L2 Phone: 613-567-6450 Consulate General of Israel in Montreal 1 Westmount Square – Suite 650 Westmount, QC H3Z 2P9 Phone: 514-940-8500 Canadian Embassy and Consulate in Tel Aviv Phone: 011 972 3 636 3300 E-mail: taviv@dfait-maeci.gc.ca  

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Is Israel An Apartheid State?

Apartheid became the official policy of the Government of South Africa in 1948, following the election of the Herenigde Nasionale Party, later renamed the National Party. Under this policy, racial discrimination was institutionalized. The lives of the Africans who made up almost 75 per cent of the population, were controlled by unjust segregation laws from…

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