We are pleased to renew contacts with Yad Vashem through a  zoom meeting between Richelle Budd Caplan and Lea Micha and Ines Todhe from the Curricula Agency in Tirana, aiming to intensify ties between them. The focus of the conversation was sharing information on the Yad Vashem ready to print exhibition, "Shoah: How was it Humanly Possible?"  is now available in Shqip.

During the meeting with Hamad Amar, a Minister in the Finance Ministry, Ambassador Canaj praised him for his previous role as Chairman of parliamentary group Israel-Albania. At the same time he expressed the importance of the next step, following the signature of the Convention on Avoidance of Double Taxation and fiscal evasion, the ratification in the Knesset.
Another agreement next in line to be finalized with Israeli institutions, remains the MoU in Custom issues, hopefully to be concluded soon.

The Albanian-American Development Foundation (AADF) in collaboration with the Albanian Ministry of Culture organized the International Architectural Design Competition for the building of the Albanian Jewish Museum in the city of Vlorë. The Albanian Jewish Museum will be a museum of small scale considering the location and the specifics of the historical environment where it will be integrated. The significance of the building will be closely related to the museum content and will mark the urban landscape in a very conservative, and at the same time, innovative way.

The Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Olta Xhacka, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center in New York and the attacks on the Pentagon, stated that the attacks against the USA and the events of September 11, 2001 are one of those events that will be difficult to erase from our collective memory. But above all, September 11 is a day to commemorate and honor the memory of those thousands of innocent lives lost that day and to be more united than ever even in their name, against terrorism and extremism.