“We were supposed to actually go visit the Syrian border the next morning and so we did not end up doing that,” Whaley said.
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Her group was in Tel Aviv in the southern part of the country, five hours away from the bombings.
“What’s really interesting to me is how life, like, continues to go on. Here’s a bombing that’s happening five hours from Tel Aviv. There’s no change in the day-to-day workings of folks in the large cities,” she said.
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The mayor also had a chance to visit the Gaza Strip to meet with Palestinians.
Much of her work came from promoting the Great Dayton Regional Israeli Trade Alliance with Sister City Holon.
“I think their commitment to startups has been pretty amazing. They’re called startup nation. Just how quickly Israel moves is pretty breathtaking; they’re very urgent.”
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