More than two dozen mayors from six continents came to Israel in June for the 27th annual International Mayors Conference, gathering to discuss mutual cooperation in areas such as high-tech, clean-tech and education.
Over the course of two days, mayors from 26 countries – among them the United States, Canada, Australia, Philippines, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Hungary, Greece, Kenya, Tanzania, El Salvador, Uruguay, Malta, Cape Verde, Peru, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kazakhstan – met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, non-profit and private industry experts and the mayors of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa, Israel’s three largest cities.
Ahmadiyya Mosque on Munt Carmel, Haifa, Israel
…… Many of the mayors who come to the conference have large Jewish constituencies, while others have a personal desire to visit the holy sites in Israel. Hand in hand with those considerations, they come to seek out Israeli investment opportunities in technology and other fields for their countries…..
While in Haifa, they toured the neighborhood of Kababir hosted by the unique Ahmadiyya Muslim sect, and got a briefing at Rambam Health Care Campus (www.rambam.org.il), which has an underground parking garage that can be converted into a missile-proof, state-of-the-art emergency room in less than three hours.
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The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community moved to Kababir from Ni’lin near Jerusalem. Maulana Jalal ud Din Shams was the first Aamadiyya Missionary from India to Israel and Abdul Qadir Odeh was the first Palestinian to embrace Ahmadiyyat in Israel. The first mosque was built in 1931 and larger Mahmood mosque was completed in the 1970s. The grand mosque has two white minarets standing 35 meters tall which dominate the low-rise skyline of the residential neighborhoods on the ridges nearby.