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Privately funded congressional travel to Israel hits 10-year low

Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Jan. 28, 2019

Privately sponsored congressional trips to Israel hit a ten-year low last year, thanks to one influential group shying away from paying for election-year travel.

The American Israel Education Foundation, a sister organization to the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobbying group, spent $444,000 courting 40 members and staff in Israel last year. That's less than half of what the group spent on 92 trips in 2016 ($963,000) and a third of what it spent on 107 trips in 2014 ($1.3 million).

Other groups spent an additional $170,000 on private congressional travel to Israel last year, bringing the total amount spent on all Israel travel to $614,000. That's the lowest spent in a single year since 2008, which saw a combined $445,000 spent on Israel travel.

AIEF's travel sponsorship in non-election years has not seem the same decline, with the group spending more than $1.9 million on travel in 2017.

AIEF and other interest groups spend such large sums on international travel in the hopes of making and influencing congressional allies, who get immersed for days in issues from the organization's point of view.

Subjects: American Israel Education Foundation; American Israel Public Affairs Committee

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