Thanks for your e-mail and I’m sorry for my late response but being commanding officer of an airborne regiment I’m pretty busy in this period.

I am really grateful to Italian Army that have given to me this great opportunity to attend the Israel National Defense College. I know you Army and your Armed

Forces and I know how professional they are. For sure this course will be really interesting and I will learn a lot from you.

Right now I don’t know if I’ll be able to attend the summer course.

As I was writing above I’m still in command and I don’t know yet when I’ll be replaced.

I’ll keep you posted as I will have more information about that.

Thanks again for you e-mail and I looking forward to meet you.

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On 7 May 2020, at 11:26, galbalas <gals@mail.gov.il> wrote:

Dear Colonel Nicola Mandolesi,

Congratulations on your acceptance to the Israel National Defense College!

My name is MAJ Gal Balas and I am the head of the International Student Management Office (ISMO) at the INDC.

We would like to invite the incoming international participants to attend a summer course at the INDC beginning in Mid-July. We believe the summer course gives partcipants a valuable opportunity to acclimate to Israeli culture, and society, and the Hebrew language before the Israeli partcipants join the course on September 2nd, 2020.

Exact dates and further information will be sent in the near future. In the meantime, please feel free to direct all your questions to one on the following addresses:

LTC Matan Or - Head of INDC Education Branch.

Email - ormatan@mail.gov.il

Cell phone - +972 52-924-7983

MAJ Gal Balas - Head of Foreign Relations and ISMO.

Email - gals@mail.gov.il

Cell phone - +972 52-957-2707

Looking forward to meeting you soon,

MAJ Gal Balas