This very special conversation swhich will be followed by an interaction with the key business leaders. Its good to be with you. Thank you. I want to also mention, pray minister, that todays Holocaust Memorial day and we especially appreciate your presence here on such a day. It has such a historical importance about never forgetting. Your contribution to the agenda today builds on your Longstanding Partnership with the forum. We had the pleasure to have you for the annual meeting, physical one in the post regularly over the past few years and we also under your leadership have a center for the revolution of the World Economic forum and you have also made a huge and very important contribution with the dialogue. Youve been at the helm of this government for more than a decade. No other Prime Minister and israel has had this position as long as you and you are also steering your country during this challengingy covid19 pandemic. I think many of the viewers and partners would like to kno
Good afternoon, everyone. A warm welcome to you from geneva. We are really delighted to have Prime Minister of israel Benjamin Netanyahu with us today. Welcome, Prime Minister. For this very special conversation which will be followed by an interaction with key business leaders. It is good, please. Oh, thank you. I wanted also to mention that today is Holocaust Memorial day. We especially appreciate your presence here on such a day. Has such a historical importance. Never forgetting. Mr. Prime minister, your contribution to the davos agenda today builds on your Longstanding Partnership with the forum. We have had the pleasure to have you for our annual meeting. The physical one and doubles regularly over the past for years in davos. We also had launched together a center for the for the World Economic forum in israel. You have also made a huge and very important contributions to our great dialogue series recently. Prime minister, you have now been at the helm of the government for more
Human rights has appeared in your times the wall street journal and Foreign Affairs also featured on a radio ad and three reasons why we still havent gotten rid of malaria an author of several those books went off in the negative responses that provokes and politicians may claim that is a Destructive Force she says migration is a lifesaving response hello everyone thank you for joining us tonight i wish i could see the person saute about the background of how he came to write this book my last book was called pandemic before i had written other books about malaria and other aspects of Global Health focusing on contagion. Right around the time of the migrant crisis on the mediterranean were all these people were leaving syria and afghanistan running away from bombings and beheadings and trying to get into europe and many of them are getting stuck in the mediterranean there were drownings and refugee camps and Detention Centers closing one at a time like a domino effect. Having written a
The bottom of your window and we will get to as many as we can. Second, we encourage everyone to purchase the book the next grade migration which you can do in the chat that i just posted. So with that science journalist and prizewinning author with human rights has appeared in the new york times, wall street journal and Current Affairs among many others. Also featured with her talk to the reasons why we still havent gotten rid of malaria. Other books including fever and pandemic. Tonight she talks about her next book that has an indepth overview of migration and the negative responses it provokes. In that response to environmental change it makes the case that migration is not to see on a source of fear but hope. Without further ado. Hello everyone. Thank you for joining us tonigh tonight. I wish i could see you in person. And the background of when i came to write this book, my last book was called pandemic. And before that i had which in other books about malaria and other aspects o
I said something along the hines of, you know, what are some of the worst effects of the migrant crisis, in your opinion. Something like that. And he stopped and he said there is no migrant crisis. And i was quite puzzled, and i said, well, theres all this tumult, and theres, you know, people are dying and drowning, and people are getting stuck in refugee camps and everyones upset, so, you know, whats happening then . If its not a migrant crisis, what is it . He said its not a crisis of migration because there are plenty of jobs for these people if they wanted to take them, theres plenty of room, theres and, in fact, what i learned about the disease status is that there were no disease outbreaks except for the ones caused by the conditions that these people were being kept in. So they were being detained in, you know, unsanitary camps, makeshift they had squats in abandoned schools and stadiums and things like that. And just by virtue of those conditions, there were some outbreaks of t