THE IFUGAO State University signed a memorandum of understanding with the Israel Embassy in Manila on future collaborations.

Israel’s Ambassador Rafael Harpaz and his wife visited the university last Friday for the signing of the agreement and to learn more about the university and Indigenous culture.

The agreement will give the university’s AgroStudies students a chance to learn in Israeli farms for 10 to 11 months.

“H.E. Harpaz and company also visited the IFSU  Museum and International Innovation Center for Indigenous Studies where cultural materials and research products are displayed, respectively. The centers boasted of an actual weaving, rice wine tasting, donning of Ifugao cultural attires, among other unique experiences,” the university said on Facebook.

IFSU President Dr. Eva Marie Codamon-Dugyon thanked the ambassador for the renewed partnership.

“IFSU is truly blessed and honored to have forged new partnership, collaboration, and friendship with the Office of the Israel’s Ambassador to the Philippines through an MOU,” Dugyon said.