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The following articles were published by Oklahoma media and reprinted here with their permission.

YOUTH AMBASSADOR STUDENT EXCHANGE GROUP 2006

For the second year in a row, OKIE will join the Youth Ambassador Student Exchange (YASE) program hosted by the America Israel Friendship League (AIFL). In the fall of 2006, Jenks High School senior, Andrew McQuary traveled to New York City, Washington D.C. and Israel along with a group of students from the United States, the Former Soviet Union (FSU) and Israel.

2007 Young Artists Competition Announces Winner

The Oklahoma Israel Exchange (OKIE) is proud to announce that the winner 2007 Young Artists Competition is Anna Starzec, a graduate student at Oklahoma City University majoring in piano performance.
For the competition, Starzec performed the Grieg Concerto for Piano in a minor, Mozart Fantasy in d minor, as II Sonate by Grazyna Bacewicz, a contemporary composer from Starzec’s homeland of Poland. She was presented to the public and performed the Bacewicz work at the Young Artists Competition Recital on Sunday, June 10, 2007, which was part of the OK MOZART International Festival in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.A student of Prof. Amy I-Lin Chen, head of the piano program at the Wanda L. Bass School of Music at Oklahoma City University, Starzec has performed in Italy, Germany, Norway, Poland, and the United States. She has won the 3^rd prize from the International Piano Competition of the Associazione F. Chopin in Rome, the Erazmus Sokrates Scholarship in Norway, and a commendation of Distinction at the Ibla Grand Prize in Sicily, Italy. During her two years in Oklahoma, she has won the 1^st prize of Oklahoma Music Teachers Association, the 2^nd prize of the Oklahoma Community Orchestra Young Artists Competition, and the Oklahoma City University Concerto Competition. She was also among the few pianists selected from around the world to participate in the 2007 Piano Texas International Academy and Festival this June.

Tips for doing business in the Middle East

Tips for doing business in the Middle East
by Bill May
Journal Record
5/22/2001

Israel Cultural Exchange to Begin

Tulsa World
May 29, 1996

Gov. Henry Invited to Address Anti-Terrorism Conference in Israel

Office of Governor Brad Henry
September 3, 2003

State’s overseas offices have value

POINT OF VIEW by Sherwin Pomerantz

Oklahoma Trade and Investment Office Opens In Israel

The Oklahoma Department of Commerce
03/25/1999

Walters, Israelis Sign Deal To Set Up Trade Exchange

Daily Oklahoman
Paul English
08/13/1992