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===Rambam Israel Fellowship Program===
In late 2003, AIJAC launched the Rambam Israel Fellowship Program to facilitate educational and fact-finding trips to Israel for selected journalists, politicians, political advisers, government officials, trade union officials, student leaders, and academics.<ref name="About AIJAC" />{{sfn|Reich|2004|p=200}}  Participation includes "air/ground transport, accommodation, meals and other associated costs".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://ausgov.info/interests.php?reps=stirling+griff |title=10 Members & Senators updated the register of interests in the last 14 Days |access-date=7 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180806145437/https://ausgov.info/interests.php?reps=stirling+griff |archive-date=6 August 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> According to Australian Jewish journalist [[Antony Loewenstein]], the week-long Rambam program included meetings with prominent Israeli politicians such as [[Ehud Barak]] and [[Benjamin Netanyahu]], a tour of the [[Israeli West Bank barrier]], and brief meetings with Palestinian leaders in Ramallah.{{sfn|Loewenstein|2006|p=221}}

The first Rambam participants were a group of young political leaders who undertook a week-long program of activities in July 2003. The second Rambam mission consisted of a five-member [[Coalition (Australia)|Coalition]] parliamentary delegation who visited Israel in December 2003. The third Rambam mission in February 2004 was a bipartisan parliamentary delegation consisting of [[Australian Labor Party]] Senators [[Stephen Conroy]] ([[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]]), [[Linda Kirk]] ([[South Australia]]), [[Ursula Stephens]] ([[New South Wales]]), and [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal]] Members of Parliament [[Steven Ciobo]], [[Sophie Panopoulos]], and [[Andrew Southcott]]. More recently, in 2018, Senators [[Stirling Griff]] ([[Centre Alliance]]) and [[Kristina Keneally]] (Labor) attended, along with other politicians, as well as journalists, including [[Sharri Markson]] and [[James Campbell (journalist)|James Campbell]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Rambam journos report back |url=https://www.jewishnews.net.au/rambam-journos-report-back/51094 |access-date=15 July 2019 |publisher=[[The Australian Jewish News]] |date=21 December 2015}}</ref>

AIJAC Rambam journalist participants have included ''[[The Herald and Weekly Times]]'' editor in chief [[Peter Blunden]] and journalist John Ferguson, the ''[[Australian Financial Review]]''{{'s}} Ben Potter and Robert Bolton, ''[[The Age]]''{{'s}} chief editorial writer John Watson, ''[[The Courier-Mail]]''{{'s}} [[Dennis Atkins]], the [[Special Broadcasting Service]]'s Sally Watson, the ''[[Sydney Morning Herald]]''{{'s}} Louise Dodson, and [[Network Ten|Channel Ten]]'s John Hill.{{sfn|Loewenstein|2006|p=220}}