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CUFI taps diplomat for Night to Honor Israel

Dr._Uri_Resnick rgbChristians United for Israel at the University of Arizona will host its fifth annual Night to Honor Israel at the Tucson Convention Center’s Leo Rich Theater on Thursday, May 15.

The keynote speaker will be Deputy Consul General of Israel Uri Resnick, Ph.D. The Gatekeepers community choir will perform. The program starts at 7 p.m. with an hors d’oeuvres reception preceding at 6 p.m.

Resnick, who made aliyah from Ottowa, Canada, in 1988, holds a Ph.D. in international relations from the Hebrew University of Jeru­sa­lem. He joined Israel’s Foreign Service in 2002 and recently completed two years as a policy advisor to Israel’s minister of foreign affairs. He is the author of “Dynamics of Asymmetric Territorial Conflict: The Evolution of Patience” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).

RSVP at www.tucsonlovesisrael.com.