Lisa and Ilsa Klinghoffer, who created ADL's Leon and Marilyn Klinghoffer Memorial Foundation in late 1985 after the brutal murder of their father, Leon, at the hands of Palestinian terrorists who hijacked the cruise ship Achille Lauro, met with Col. Avshalom Peled, the commander of Israel Police's Hebron District.

ADL brings top law enforcement officials from the United States to Israel to learn counterterrorism strategies from their Israeli counterparts.  Col. Peled has briefed several of those groups of officers from the U.S. on effective strategies developed by Israel to thwart terrorist attacks.

Col. Peled praised ADL's Advanced Training School, which instructs U.S. law enforcement on extremist and terrorist threats, as a model program, and thanked the Klinghoffers for their support and encouragement of the initiative.

"Our father put a face to the crisis of terrorism and we are a reminder that when people are killed, we must be vigilant," Ilsa Klinghoffer told Col. Peled.

ADL brought 18 senior law enforcement officers to Israel in November 2007 to learn counterterrorism tactics and strategies from senior commanders in the Israel Police and Israel Defense Forces.  Participants included chiefs and majors from city departments, including the Chicago, Houston and Atlanta police. 

Lisa and Ilsa Klinghoffer were in Israel for the 60^th anniversary of the founding of the State at the invitation of the Jewish Agency for Israel.  While in Israel, they attended a reception at the U.S. ambassador's residence, where they were honored by Ambassador Richard Jones and Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director for their unflagging efforts to raise awareness about the threat of global terrorism.

On Israel's Remembrance Day, the Klinghoffer daughters participated in a memorial service and lit a flame in honor of their father and other of victims of terrorism.