Recent activities
Israel Day - For Chinese employees of Israeli companies
Friday, January 7th, 16:00.
Year 2011 started magically for the Israeli Chamber of Commerce in Beijing.
On January 7th, we hosted Chinese employees who work for Israeli companies throughout China for an exciting event known as the "Israel Day". The goal was to give the (over 75) attendees information regarding Israel and the China-Israel relationship. We also aimed to encourage them to visit Israel.
Mr. Iddo Moed, the Israeli Embassy’s Deputy Chief of mission, educated the attendees about the China-Israeli connection. In addition, a 30-minute movie was shown, which was an introduction to the 12 episode series titled “Walk into Israel - A Land of Milk & Honey”. This movie is a mutual production of the Israeli Embassy and the CCTV, in which the story of the Jewish nation from ancient time to the present days is told, dealing with its different aspects such as history, modern times, technology and innovation and more.
Following the movie, Mrs. Wang Xiaoyun - the Vice-Director of Regional Culture Research Institute in Beijing University, shared her own personal experience from her visit to Israel. The event was then sealed with information about the itinerary of the planned trip to Israel.
The event was a fruitful collaboration with EL-AL, the Israeli Airline Company, and Culture Scapes, an Israeli traveling company. Mrs. Hellen Huang from EL-AL and Mr. Uri Tirosh from Culture Scapes joined forces to offer the attendees an outstanding opportunity to visit Israel for an exceptionally reduced price. We are delighted to say that this offer drove much interest from both the employees as well as the employers. (Note, that we have decided to open up another group trip February 15th – details below).
This event was the opening of 2011 for the Israeli Chamber of Commerce in Beijing. We are proud to say that amongst other sectors, the Chinese nation tourism to Israel is one of our main objectives for the upcoming year. We see ourselves, and the Chinese employees for Israeli companies, as ambassadors of good will for the country of Israel and we look forward to further expand our initiatives in the near future.
The Israeli Water Forum
IsCham Beijing established lately the Israeli water forum in order to provide specific and tailor-made services to this group of companies.
By understanding the needs of those companies we wish to brand and promote Israeli water advantages in the Chinese market. Over 15 companies are involved in this forum, and requests and suggestions brought up in those meetings are coming into actual action items.
Steering Committee Elections Results
On November 17th we held our Annual Event & Elections at the Israeli embassy in Beijing. Over 50 members and friends came to show their support and to hear a review about IsCham Beijing's 2010 activities.
2011 Steering Committee Elections Results:
The elections took part during November 2010 by voting via email and during the annual event. The 5 Steering Committee Members that were elected are:
Mr. Mickey Mushinsky
Adv. Gal Furer
Mrs. Danna Mattas-Applerot
Mr. Ofer Ben Zvi
Mr. Uriya Zait
For more details about 2011 Steering Committee members click here.
IsCham Beijing New Advisory Board
IsCham Beijing is happy to share with you the result of the first meeting of its advisory board. A distinguished group of professional experts living in Beijing and in Israel, which are willing to contribute their time and skills in order to assist IsCham Beijing with their extremely valuable experience, connections and knowledge of China.
On August 17th we had our 1st Advisory Board meeting (Israel wing) in Israel. We hosted the four distinguished members of the Advisory Board positioned in Israel - Prof. Aron Shai (Tel-Aviv university's Rector), Prof. Joseph Shalhevet (the director of Israel academy of science and humanities liaison office in Beijing between 1990-1992 and was actually the person who started the relationships between the two nations), Advocate Yitzhak Shelef (ambassador of Israel to China between 2000-2002) and Prof. Yitzhak Shichor (a former dean of students at the Hebrew university and a respectable figure amongst the sinology congregation), Mr. Iddo Moed (the Minister-Counselor, Deputy Chief of Mission at the embassy of Israel in Beijing) was also able to join us - Mr. Mushinsky - Our Chairman - along with our Vices-Chairman Mr. Furer and Mrs. Mattas-Applerot. The meeting was a big success and very fruitful - knowledge was shared, ideas were raised and future activities were planned in which our members will have the opportunity to enjoy from. During the month of October we'll have our second meeting for our Chinese wing which will include Mr. Yishai Aviram (CEO of Eisenberg edible oils since 1994), Mrs. Roberta Lipson (CEO of Chindex international and Chairman of the board of United Family Healthcare Group), Mr. Sam Muller (of BCID-Brack Capital - our founding sponsor - the Tianjin born and raised gentleman had experience in 3 continents which he's willing to share with us) and Mrs. Helen Huang (EL-AL's country manager in China - our 2010 annual gold sponsor).
We are looking forward to inform you more on our Advisory Board activities in the near future - and share information and mutual activities.
For more information on the directors please visit our Advisory Board section
Business Delegation to Jilin Province
On September 4-6 IsCham Beijing organized a delegation of its members to the Euro-China Business Meeting in Changchun city, Jilin.
The government of Jilin province invited entrepreneurs from 12 European countries to hold face-to-face meetings with Chinese enterprises from Jilin.
Our members held meeting with various Chinese companies from different sectors, joined discussions about the province's advantages and opportunities and visited in Changchun Hi-Tech Development Area, which offers a wide range of services to foreign enterprises.