Arizona
Arizona governor visits Israel for talks on trade, water and security
PHOENIX — Arizona Governor Doug Ducey was in Israel for 5 days of talks with political and enterprise leaders.
Ducey arrived in Israel on Sunday morning, accompanied by the heads of the Arizona Commerce Authority and the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Trade.
Ducey spokesperson C.J. Karamargin mentioned the Republican governor’s conferences will give attention to commerce, water and border safety. Ducey has labored over his seven years in workplace to spice up financial ties with Israel, which has an analogous arid local weather and water and safety points.
He’ll meet with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and President Isaac Herzog in addition to former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He additionally will meet with US Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides.
Ducey can pay a Memorial Day go to to Israel’s 9/11 memorial in Jerusalem, meet with town’s mayor and go to some historic websites.
It’s Ducey’s third journey to Israel since he took workplace in 2015. He was the primary Arizona governor to go there when he led an 8-day official commerce mission throughout his first 12 months as governor. He attended a global convention on water expertise and met with enterprise and authorities officers.
On this photograph from January 10, 2022, Arizona Republican Governor Doug Ducey provides his state of the state tackle on the Arizona Capitol, in Phoenix. (AP Photograph/Ross D. Franklin)
In 2019, he and his household traveled there for a mixed enterprise journey and household vacation trip. He toured a commerce authority commerce workplace that opened in Tel Aviv earlier that 12 months.
Ducey has touted Israel’s water desalination expertise as a approach to increase Arizona’s provides, that are endangered by long-term drought and local weather change. He desires the state Legislature to approve a $1 billion funding for enhancing the state’s water provide this 12 months. Key to that plan is a desalination plant that would price greater than 5 instances that quantity.
Ducey has not offered any particulars of plans for the plant, which might probably be positioned in Mexico and draw water from the Gulf of California.
Commerce authority president and CEO Sandra Watson and Danny Seiden, a former Ducey staffer who now leads the statewide Chamber of Commerce enterprise group, are touring with the governor.
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