The meeting was attended by S\u00f2nia Recasens, Deputy Mayor for Economy, Enterprise, and Employment, and the second in charge of the Spanish embassy in Israel, Santiago G\u00f3mez Acebo. Founded in 1909, Tel Aviv is the second-largest city in Israel. It’s the country’s economic and cultural capital, and where not just its big companies’ corporate headquarters but also its prestigious research and development centres are based.<\/p>\n
Barcelona, twinned with Tel Aviv since 1988<\/strong><\/p>\n Mayor Trias told his opposite number, Ron Huldai, that the Barcelona delegation had travelled to Israel together with the President of the Autonomous Government \u00abto sign collaboration agreements, but above all so that we can work together from now on; we have come to promote and facilitate agreements between the City of Barcelona and its companies and research centres with Israeli companies\u00bb. Trias said that although Barcelona is very well known worldwide as an attractive city for tourism, \u00abour capital is a city of culture, knowledge, creativity, innovation, and wellbeing; and for years we have been promoting an ambitious strategy to transform Barcelona into a leading smart city internationally\u00bb. Xavier Trias and S\u00f2nia Recasens invited Mayor Huldai and the city of Tel Aviv to participate actively in the upcoming Mobile World Congress, to be held in February.<\/p>\n Barcelona has been twinned with Tel Aviv and Gaza since 1998. Since then, relations with Tel Aviv have strengthened, and there have been contacts and collaborations at both the political and technical levels. Throughout these years, there have also been technical contacts between the two cities with visits by various delegations of the Tel Aviv City Council aimed at tackling economic and urban development subjects, as well as youth matters and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On the second official day of his visit to Israel, the Mayor of Barcelona, Xavier Trias, met the Mayor of Tel Aviv, Ron Huldai. Both mayors expressed their desire to strengthen relations between Tel Aviv and Barcelona and signed an agreement of friendship and cooperation to promote and provide mutual support and cooperation in the development of trade, investments and economic activities. The agreement signed by Trias and Huldai will be valid for three years and is renewable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-circular-economy"],"yoast_head":"\n