Monday, December 12, 2011

Pressing Business

It was Meet the Press for Austin on his last day in Israel,
Press Conference this morning. Overall message. Let's promote peace. - Aus10

but he also got to do a few more things before he flew back to the United States.

Yesterday, they were briefed by General Yossi Kupperwasser, the Deputy Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs before they went to Masada and their swim in the Dead Sea.Sunday night they met with Minister Yuli Edelstein, Israel's Minister of Diaspora and Public Affairs. After the briefing they went to dinner at Eucalyptus Restaurant, and enjoyed the food and the explanation of the famous spices and foods of the Holy Land by the Master Chef Moshe Basson.

Today they met with a senior advisor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

And toured the
Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Museum.And spoke to the press about their time in Israel and posed for pictures with Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs Minister, Yuli Edelstein.
And yes, met more fans!

While Austin was meeting the press, was Jake making the press?New pictures of Jake from Saturday popped up this morning. Was he playing the "you see me here but I'm already gone" card to make it seem like he's in New York longer. Where or when will he pop up next?

22 comments:

Wow said...

Another exciting day for Austin and crew. This has been wonderful. :)

prairiegirl said...

It has been exciting to see all that Austin experienced during this trip. What an honor for him and I bet he learned so much. I am sure he was tremendously impacted at the Holocaust museum.

I am just amazed at the number of fans tweeting at him during the past week. Who would've thought? So many fans asking to meet him, where was he, was he still at the hotel, how nice it was to actually meet & talk with him, travel tips, etc. What an experience for him. I'm sure he was a great representative for the U.S.

Thanks for bringing all of this to us, Special - great job. There was a lot to check out and you saved some of us quite a few downloads. LOLLL!

prairiegirl said...

And I don't mean why would no one want to tweet at him - he gets lots of tweets from OTH fans, but what are they tweeting? "Please wish me happy birthday! Please DM me! Will you please retweet?" Just a bunch of gimme, gimme, gimme's.

It was refreshing to see the substance of these tweets and what amazed me was that here in the U.S., he goes basically unrecognized.

Way to go, fans of Israel - you are on it!

Seaweed said...

Is it just me or does Jake seem to be doing a Joaquin Phoenix impersonation in those NY photos...

The more I see of Austin, the more I like. Hope he and Jake get some serious family time after this latest trip.

prairiegirl said...

Austin has had quite a year: Grand Marshall of a parade and now as an ambassador of the U.S. (sort of). Two honors in one year - pretty snazzy, Aust.

And Jake? no comment at this time, thank you.


Well, took a big honkin' plate of the ol' almond bark covered pretzels into work this morning and they were snarfed up like nobody's business. Not many were left by the end of the day; enough for the night whse super. And I found out today that I have 3 vacation days unused!!! What a nice surprise. Don't know how they're going to get squeezed in, though.

And wearing my new spectacles tonight; trying to get used to them. I had no-lines before and that's what these are, but they're still a little funny to look through.

Special K said...

Here's another brief article and another picture of Austin at Yad Vashem's Holocaust History Museum.

The dome is filled with pictures of those who died, and around the room,are notebooks. The names of each of the 6 million killed in the Holocaust are listed in those books.

International Business Times

Special K said...

Wow - three vacations days PG. Bet you find a way to squeeze them in.

twitter said...

TheJuliaBeck
julia beck
@bexinthecity got to spin behind Jake Gyllenhaal today, I loved my @zengofitness but she wins!
29 minutes ago via Twitter for iPad

twitter said...

scottstudenberg Scott Studenberg
I swear Jake Gyllenhaal keeps staring at me. He's single - right?
2 hours ago

scottstudenberg Scott Studenberg
Seth Myers is wearing Jake's same red & black lumberjack shirt #SOembarrassing #ihatewhenthathappens
34 minutes ago

twitter said...

Katie Ryan
@katieryan_ Katie Ryan
Jake Gyllenhaal sighting with my morning coffee. Things are looking up!
12 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone
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LaurGood Lauren Goodwin
@
@katieryan_ STOP IT. I'm so jealous!! Did you tell him he's beautiful and invite him to our cookie swap? I'd bake another batch for him!
12 hours ago

katieryan_ Katie Ryan
@
@LaurGood haha no but looking back I should have. I just admired from afar. He has a nice grizzly beard for the winter.
9 hours ago

LaurGood Lauren Goodwin
@
@katieryan_ its probably for the best. 8 gushing sorority girls trying to force feed him cookies might be overwhelming/terrifying for him.
9 hours ago

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the real m said...

Quite the contrast right now with Jake and Austin. Our boy Austin on a peace initiative trip. Jake wandering around aimlessly from exercise class to restaurants. I guess someone had to stay home with the kids.

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Special K said...

Troll time for you to toddle off to bed.

prairiegirl said...

Well, well, well......

A new nudie pic (photoshop?) of our Mr. Gyllenhaal just beginning to make the rounds on Twitter this morning.

Boy, at 4:50 in the morning, a real eye opener. LOLLLLLL!!

I don't know....it's tricky. For one thing, his head looks pretty big in proportion to the body but the bodytype is very similar to Jake's, triangle shape. You have the very narrow hips and glimpse of tiny heiney.

But the only thing is, this body is very manscaped.

I have to get ready to go in early to work this morning but you guys'll see it. This thing is going to be retweeted like crazy today, I'm sure.

Poor Jake. Wonder why this is happening again?

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Special K said...

Jake leaving NYC?

@JiiLaaK Jila
Just had a 15 min convo with Jake Gyllenhaal. Missing my flight was absolute destiny!!! #privileged
50 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone

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AUS10 said...

I want to go into business with this guy. @jonmedved
Thanks for hanging with us, Jon.
28 minutes ago

Beautiful view of Jerusalem for our press conference. say.ly/blb17RX
26 minutes ago

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prairiegirl said...

Uh oh, someone's not having a good day today, are they?

I burned my microwave popcorn today! And that was not appealing after our whse super heated up his pulled bbq pork sandwich. Man, he always has some great concoction brewing in that microwave. It's torture!!!