Full Text of HR0200 102nd General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives wish to recognize Aviv Ezra on the occasion of | 4 | | his retirement as Consul General of Israel to the Midwest; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Aviv Ezra was born in Israel to an Israeli | 6 | | diplomat and a teacher in 1972; he served in the Israel Defense | 7 | | Forces, where he achieved the rank of captain; he received his | 8 | | Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Political Science from | 9 | | Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Aviv Ezra joined Israel's Foreign Ministry in | 11 | | 1999; he served as the economic and commercial attaché to | 12 | | Cairo, Egypt from 2000 to 2002; he served as the deputy consul | 13 | | general for the Southeastern region of the U.S. at the | 14 | | Consulate General of Israel in Atlanta, Georgia from 2002 to | 15 | | 2006; he was appointed as a policy advisor to the director | 16 | | general of the Foreign Ministry in 2006; after serving five | 17 | | years as Israel's liaison to the U.S. Congress, he was | 18 | | appointed as counselor in the Foreign Ministry's North America | 19 | | Division Congressional Affairs Department in 2013; and
| 20 | | WHEREAS, Aviv Ezra was appointed as Consul General of | 21 | | Israel to the Midwest based in Chicago in 2016 and was | 22 | | responsible for nine Midwestern states, including Illinois, |
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| 1 | | Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, | 2 | | South Dakota, and Wisconsin; and
| 3 | | WHEREAS, During his five-year tenure, Aviv Ezra oversaw a | 4 | | number of developments in Israeli-United States relations, | 5 | | including Tel Aviv University and Hebrew University joining | 6 | | the University of Illinois in the Discovery Partners Institute | 7 | | (DPI), the implementation of the NATAL Model for trauma | 8 | | resiliency in Bronzeville, the signing of a memorandum of | 9 | | understanding (MOU) between the City of Chicago and the Peres | 10 | | Center for Peace and Innovation in 2019, the launch of a | 11 | | non-stop flight route between Chicago O'Hare Airport and Tel | 12 | | Aviv Ben Gurion in September 2020, the partnership of Mt. | 13 | | Sinai Chicago Hospital and Shamir Medical Center, co-leading | 14 | | the Chicago-Israel Healthtech Summit alongside the digital | 15 | | health hub MATTER and the Sheba Medical Center, and many more | 16 | | too numerous to mention; and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, Aviv Ezra is married to Einat, and they have | 18 | | three children; therefore, be it
| 19 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 20 | | HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 21 | | we recognize Aviv Ezra on his retirement as Consul General of | 22 | | Israel to the Midwest, and we commend him for his years of | 23 | | service to Israel-United States relations; and be it further
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| 1 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 2 | | presented to Aviv Ezra as an expression of our esteem and | 3 | | respect.
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