{"id":432595,"date":"2026-09-11T07:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T07:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/432595\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T07:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T07:08:10","slug":"houston-community-welcomes-new-israeli-consul-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/432595\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston community welcomes new Israeli consul general"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pagephoto layout_pagephoto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/articles-2026-09-08-20-01-29-061.JPG\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>More than 100 community leaders welcomed new Israeli Consul General Adi Farjon Israel at Holocaust Museum Houston on Sept. 3. Photo By: PHOTO BY JHV: HAGIT BIBI<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Published\u2022<\/p>\n<p>Thu, Sep 10, 2026<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>More than 100 community leaders came together at Holocaust Museum Houston on Sept. 3 to welcome Israeli Consul General Adi Farjon Israel to Houston.<\/p>\n<p>HMH CEO Gary Weisserman greeted community, civic and diplomatic leaders, and Congregation Emanu El Senior Rabbi Oren Hayon gave a pre-Rosh Hashanah blessing before introducing the new consul general. <\/p>\n<p>Attendees enjoyed kosher bites and drinks during the reception. <\/p>\n<p>The consul general is making her rounds throughout her five-state territory and will visit the JHV later this month to share her vision for furthering Israel and Houston\u2019s special relationship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; More than 100 community leaders welcomed new Israeli Consul General Adi Farjon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,116482,31274,116481,116480,116479,12008,27],"class_list":["post-432595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-synagogues","tag-jewish","tag-jewish-herald-voice","tag-jewish-news","tag-jhv","tag-newspaper","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}