On the afternoon of August 18, 2025, Mr. Nguyen Long Bien - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee had a meeting and worked with Mr. Yaron Mayer - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Israel to Vietnam.

Scene of the meeting and working session.
At the meeting, Mr. Nguyen Long Bien introduced the potentials and advantages of Khanh Hoa province after the merger; especially the potential for developing industry, energy, tourism and services. Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Long Bien hoped that Ambassador Yaron Mayer would continue to pay attention, connect and introduce Israeli enterprises to participate in investing in developing important projects in Khanh Hoa province; research and cooperate to implement direct flights from Israel to Khanh Hoa to create favorable conditions to attract tourists as well as enterprises and investors from Israel to Khanh Hoa to learn, trade and cooperate in investment; at the same time, promote the image of Khanh Hoa to Israel and vice versa. Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Long Bien also expressed that Khanh Hoa province wishes to cooperate in applying technological initiatives and science and technology policies of Israel to promote innovation to increase income for people in areas with difficult natural conditions of the province; cooperate in building an innovative startup ecosystem associated with the marine economy and tourism services; cooperate in deploying Israeli technologies to serve the development of the marine economy of Khanh Hoa province.

Mr. Nguyen Long Bien - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee (3rd from right) at the reception of the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Israel to Vietnam.
Mr. Yaron Mayer also emphasized that over the past 30 years, Vietnam and Israel have had a good cooperative relationship. Ambassador Yaron Mayer highly appreciated the potential of Khanh Hoa and expressed his desire to promote cooperation between the two sides in many fields, especially in the fields of tourism, aquaculture, high-tech agriculture, education - training, innovation, startups and journalism... Mr. Yaron Mayer also affirmed that he will strengthen work with relevant parties to promote cooperation in implementing direct flights from Israel to Vietnam in the coming time. On this occasion, Ambassador Yaron Mayer also invited the leaders of Khanh Hoa Provincial People's Committee to attend the Conference of Mayors of cities in Israel in November 2026.
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