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AIPAC conference to focus on Iranian nuclear threatVice President Joe Biden will represent the U.S. administration at the event • Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak before the conference via videolink.Yoni Hirsch and Lilach ShovalPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at AIPAC’s conference in 2012. [Archive]|Photo credit: APMore than 10,000 Israel supporters were set to convene in Washington D.C. on Sunday for the annual conference hosted by the U.S.’s largest pro-Israel lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. The main issue on the agenda for the conference was to be the Iranian nuclear threat.AIPAC members from across North America were set to arrive Sunday and attend numerous debates and panels. The U.S. administration will be represented by Vice President Joe Biden, who is set to speak before the committee on Monday. Biden’s speech at AIPAC comes only weeks before U.S. President Barack Obama makes his first visit to Israel.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is diligently working to assemble a government coalition, will not make it to the conference, though he is set to speak via videolink.Defense Minister Ehud Barak will be Israel’s most senior representative at the event. He is scheduled to address the conference on Sunday night. Other expected speakers are Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, and additional congressmen and statesmen.The conference will cover a range of topics relevant to U.S.-Israeli relations.

via Israel Hayom | AIPAC conference to focus on Iranian nuclear threat.

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