To mark San Francisco’s and Haifa’s 50 years as “sister cities,” San Francisco Mayor London Breed and a delegation of 30 others spent five days in Israel. The group arrived on May 11 in the midst of the conflict with Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip. Fairly nonplussed, according to news reports, they visited Haifa, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Bethlehem.
Among the topics representatives of the cities discussed on the trip, which was sponsored by the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) Bay Area, was urban renewal, per a release.
