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PI Alumni Lead Israel Friendship Group in European Parliament
![Transatlantic Friends of Israel on a Project Interchange trip to Israel](/sites/default/files/styles/embedded_full_width_small/public/uploaded-images/2020-12/pi-tfi.jpg?itok=Z5I8VArx)
Transatlantic Friends of Israel (TFI) Chair Lukas Mandl, and Vice-chairs Petras Auštrevičius, Anna Michelle Asimakopoulou, Diemar Köster, and Alexandr Vondra lead the Transatlantic Friends of Israel inter-parliamentary group.
Their many accomplishments include launching a Transatlantic Declaration calling upon the EU to ban Hezbollah (which has garnered hundreds of signatures), a campaign to expose and end incitement and antisemitism in Palestinian textbooks, and more.