[NUIS Work Plan, page 77:]
Foreign Relations Department Vision:
“The Foreign Relations Department will act to strengthen the link between the student population in Israel and students around the world, and to develop their dialog. The Department will represent the union with international organizations and will be a partner in the general national effort of explaining [hasbara] Israel around the world.”
Targets:
1. The Department will harness itself to the national effort to explain [hasbara] the position of Israel in the world. 2. The Department will act to intensify ties between Israeli students and students around the world. 3. The Department will act to entrench the Union’s position in the international arena. 4. The Department will develop the mutual relationships between the union and various organizations relating to its activity, in Israel and around the world.
Specifying goals for the targets: 1. The Department will harness itself to the national effort to explain [hasbara] the position of Israel in the world.
1A. Goal: the Department will act, in cooperation with government ministries and additional organizations, to improve the explanation [hasbara] of Israel’s position around the world. Plan: In the face of the multiplicity of organizations in Israel that do
hasbara
and the lack of any real coordination and cooperation among them, the Union will act to form “
a round table
” where the various organizations will take part. The cooperation is meant to empower the methods of
hasbara
and to pool resources. Additionally, it is the goal of the Union to expand the
hasbara
done by Israeli students, and through them present the pretty face of Israel. It is the Department’s aspiration that through this cooperation, the number of delegations and events in which the student population takes place will expand, and that the support by government ministries will also expand, in future, in sending NUIS delegations abroad and subsidizing them. Operational organization: Foreign Relations Department head, NUIS president.
Metric Work Plan Target
Writing a general joint operative plan Creating a “round table” for forming a plan that will pool forces and resources; additionally, the plan will make it clear why the NUIS and the students should be used in favor of practical
hasbara
. December 2011 Holding work meetings to promote the
hasbara
plan Holding work meetings at the NUIS. Every other month Receiving subsidies for this Further to the meetings, we will want Throughout the