On Friday, Sept. 21, 2018, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the Associate Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and David Bedein, director of the Center for Near East Policy Research, visited with the Ambassador Koichi Aiboshi, the new Japanese ambassador to Israel, at the Japanese embassy in Tel Aviv

Since Japan indeed acts as one of the sponsosr of the new support conference for UNRWA, scheduled to occur in Amman, Jordan, Rabbi Cooper and David Bedein raised concerns about the UNRWA education system, and about transparency for all humanitarian funds that UNRWA receives.