29.05.2011                      25.Ijar, 5771                      Tag 40 des Omer

Feature:

Public Security: A fond salute to a top Israeli attaché

In Washington, Uri Bar-Lev concludes a prosperous chapter in the North American-Israeli security relationship.

Recent days have seen diplomatic tensions between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama, but cooperation between Israel and the US on domestic security and counter-terrorism has only grown closer over the past two years.
Cmdr. Uri Bar-Lev, the outgoing Israel Police and public security attaché to the US and Canada, is in Washington this week to bid farewell to a host of senior American colleagues with whom he has worked closely for the past year and a half on counterterrorism issues, including intelligence, planning first responses to incidents, hostage situations, and inter-organizational cooperation….