The Canada-Israel Committee (CIC) was the official representative of the organized Canadian Jewish community on matters pertaining to Canada-Israel relations.

The Canada-Israel Committee maintained offices in Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Israel, and was affiliated with the Quebec-Israel Committee

Quebec-Israel Committee

The Quebec-Israel Committee is an organization in the Canadian province of Quebec. Devoted to pro-Israel advocacy, it is a member of the Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish Advocacy and an affiliate of the Canada-Israel Committee .The committee's activities include missions to Israel and media...

. Its staff consisted of experts in government policy, communications, Arab-Israeli relations and Middle East affairs, and Canadian Middle East policy.

Due to a restructuring of Jewish community bodies, effective July 1, 2011, the CIC ceased operations and its responsibilities were assumed by its parent organization, the Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish Advocacy

Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish Advocacy

The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs was founded in 2004 as the principal advocacy, oversight and co-ordinating body for a number of Jewish Canadian organizations including the Canada-Israel Committee , the Canadian Jewish Congress/United Jewish Appeal and National Jewish...

 (CIJA).

Funding

CIC was funded by the Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish Advocacy

Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish Advocacy

The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs was founded in 2004 as the principal advocacy, oversight and co-ordinating body for a number of Jewish Canadian organizations including the Canada-Israel Committee , the Canadian Jewish Congress/United Jewish Appeal and National Jewish...

, the advocacy arm of UIA Federations Canada.

Programming

The CIC was devoted to the promotion of increased understanding between the peoples of Canada and Israel. It is a non-partisan, voluntary, non-profit organization that enjoys the support of Canadians from all walks of life. In seeking to enhance Canada-Israel friendship, the CIC liaised with government, media, business and the academic sector, often submitting briefs and providing background analyses on matters of public policy. In addition, it sponsored seminars, conferences and other types of educational programming in Canada, and organized study missions to Israel.

External links

• http://www.cicweb.ca/about/mission.cfm
• Canada-Israel Committee

Further reading

David Howard Goldberg, Foreign policy and ethnic interest groups: American and Canadian Jews lobby for Israel, (1990), Chapter 3, The Canada-Israel Committee: History, Mandate, and Organizational Structure

See also

• Canadian Jewish Congress
  Canadian Jewish Congress
  The Canadian Jewish Congress was one of the main lobby groups for the Jewish community in the country, although it often competed with the more conservative B'nai Brith Canada in that regard. At its dissolution, the president of the CJC was Mark Freiman. Its past co-presidents were Sylvain Abitbol...
  
  
• B'nai Brith Canada
  B'nai Brith Canada
  B'nai Brith Canada is the Canadian section of B'nai Brith . It was founded in 1875 and is the country's oldest Jewish service organization.-Members:...
  
  
• Independent Jewish Voices (Canada)
• Canadian Jewish Political Affairs Committee
  Canadian Jewish Political Affairs Committee
  The Canadian Jewish Political Affairs Committee , is a Canadian political organization.The Executive Director of CJPAC is Mark Waldman, who has been active with the organization since its establishment....