Meeting with Mayor of Bethlehem Municipality

Dec 16, 2021

May­or of Beth­le­hem, Lawyer Anton Salman, received the Direc­tor of the Beth­le­hem Devel­op­ment Foun­da­tion, Dr. Kholoud Daibes and the exec­u­tive team at Beth­le­hem Munic­i­pal House, yesterday.

At first, Salman wel­comed Dr. Daibes and expressed his hap­pi­ness for her return to home­land after she served as the Pales­tin­ian ambas­sador to Ger­many for the last 8 years, and con­grat­u­lat­ed her on her new posi­tion as exec­u­tive direc­tor of the Beth­le­hem Devel­op­ment Foundation.

Mr. Salman briefed BDF about the projects the munic­i­pal­i­ty imple­ment­ed with­in the frame­work of its strate­gic plan and the remain­ing projects to be imple­ment, express­ing the need to search for new means of trans­porta­tion to solve the traf­fic con­ges­tion that Beth­le­hem is fac­ing, accord­ing to the sus­tain­able mobil­i­ty plan the munic­i­pal­i­ty prepared.

For her site, Dr. Khouloud thanked the may­or, express­ing the impor­tance of strength­en­ing the rela­tions between the foun­da­tion and the munic­i­pal­i­ty, high­light­ing that the foun­da­tion’s only goal is to respond to the city’s needs with­in the munic­i­pal­i­ty’s vision for the devel­op­ment of Bethlehem.