After the United States, Portugal, France, Italy and Belgium, Isabel Díaz Ayuso has decided to include Israel in her list of international destinations in search of foreign investment. The president of the Community of Madrid will take advantage of her trip to Jerusalem to “host projects and exchange knowledge” during different meetings that she will have with political leaders and businessmen.
This Monday’s day includes a visit to the World Center for the Commemoration of the Shoah, where he will make a floral offering, as well as a meeting with the President of Israel, Isaac Herzog, a meeting in which the Minister of Economy, Finance and Employment will also participate , Javier Fernandez-Lasquetty.
The president will convey her intention to continue increasing relations with this country and will offer Madrid as a “home” to the Jewish community, whose entrepreneurial nature has always stood out.
The trip to Israel picks up the baton from Lisbon, where Ayuso traveled in January, after visiting Miami, Brussels and Marseille in 2022. Although to date the signing of any major investment agreement has not been disclosed after his calculated international agenda to project a presidential profile that distinguishes it from its rivals in the regional elections.
To try to reverse it, Ayuso has included on this occasion meetings with the Minister of Economy, Nir Barkat; or that of Agriculture and Rural Areas, Avraham Dichter.
Members of Invest in Madrid, CEIM and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Community of Madrid have traveled with the regional president with the aim of promoting business and commercial exchanges.
Hours before her trip, the president of the Community of Madrid, has censured the decision of the mayoress of Barcelona, ??Ada Colau, to break ties with the sister city of Tel Aviv, when Israel is “the nation that reminds us every day that freedom is the most precious asset we have”, he said.
“These are times to value what has been built together, they are times to forge alliances with those who see life in a similar way,” said Ayuso, who stressed that the Community of Madrid will strengthen ties with Israel, a nation “threatened as few in the world to defend their freedom”.
Faced with Colau’s position, he said, Madrid is “everyone’s home”, as it is for Latin America, “which is sinking day by day into the hands of street populism, which is expelling companies and life projects”. “At least here they find their home again,” he said.
