Austrian Federal President Van der Bellen and the delegation for culture and science visited Israel

Austrian Federal President Van der Bellen is on an official visit to Israel.   

Jam Music Lab rector, Marcus Ratka is part of the Austrian delegation for culture and science and visited the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Weizmann Institute, the Technion Israel Institute of Technology and the Central Committee of Jews from Austria.

“I had the honor to meet two wonderful ladies: Ruth and Sylvia Schkolnik had to leave Austria in 1938 and managed to survive Nazi persecution. Just met the both of them in Tel Aviv and we talked about life and music. The Central Committee of Jews from Austria and the Pensioners’ Association were founded to support former Austrian Holocaust survivors in Israel.” (Marcus Ratka)