Ambassador to Vietnam Gets Acquainted with Shliach

Ho Chi Min City, Vietnam — Israel’s ambassador to Vietnam Effi Ben Matityahu paid a visit to the home of the new shaliach in Vietnam, Rabbi Menachem Hartman.

The Israeli embassy and consulate in Vietnam is located in its capital, Hanoi and the new Chabad Hosue is in Ho Chi Min Saigon but in recent months the ties between the Chabad House and the embassy have been strengthened. In the past two months, the staff at the embassy have heard from Israelis who visit the country of the wide-reaching activities of the Chabad House.

Mr. Ben Matityahu is in Ho Chi Min these days on a work-related mission and decided to visit the shluchim at the new Chabad House in order to get acquainted and to discuss future cooperation.

The ambassador was greeted very warmly and spent some time with the Hartmans expressing his admiration for the work of the shluchim in Vietnam. The ambassador, as many others, envisions a very bright economic future and tourism for Vietnam as well as in the the Jewish dimension.