Israel Baseball is featured at this year’s AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington DC, taking place from March 20-22. Representing the Israel Association of Baseball at the conference are IAB President Peter Kurz and National Team Head Coach Nate Fish.
AIPAC also invited two graduates of last year’s Baseball Le’Kulam (Baseball for All) program, which brought together Jewish and Arab Israeli 6th graders to learn how to play baseball and meet and learn about one another. Fadi Abu Swees (pictured left) from Ramle and Niv Eytan (right) from Modiin will appear in front of 20,000 people at the conference on Monday evening, March 21 at around 18:30 local time. AIPAC filmed a movie at the third session of Baseball Le’Kulam last year in December, which will also be premiered at the session, during which the Democratic and Republican candidates for the US presidential election will also be addressing the conference. The video can be viewed on YouTube - https://youtu.be/nTadyA9hvZU.
The IAB will have a booth at the AIPAC village, where visitors can come and get their own personalized Israel Baseball cards made and meet the Israel Baseball representatives.
AIPAC, (The American Israel Public Affairs Committee) is a lobbying group that advocates pro-Israel policies to the Congress and Executive Branch of the US. The AIPAC Policy Conference is the largest gathering of America's pro-Israel community, which takes place every year. IN attendance are more than 15,000 pro-Israel Americans, more than two-thirds of the US Congress, 3,600 students from more than 630 campuses, 275 synagogue delegations, and AIPAC members from across the country.