By Brad A. Greenberg - Excerpted from Jewish Journal
 
During the first week of March, a delegation of about a dozen Israeli academics, environmentalists and politicians will spend five days in Los Angeles working with their local counterparts.

The environmental exchange is being sponsored by the Tel Aviv-Los Angeles Partnership of The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles and Jewish Agency for Israel. Many of the specifics, including the itinerary and the participants, remain unclear. But what is known is that this is just the beginning of what many hope will be a long dialogue to improve the environment of both cities. And later this year or in early 2009, The Federation plans to send the L.A. participants to Tel Aviv for round two.