Tennessee Representative Chuck Fleischmann will be among 81 members of Congress visiting Israel during the August recess. The trip marks Fleischmann’s first time overseas as a congressman, and is privately funded by the American Israel Education Foundation, a 501(c)3 that works alongside the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC.

In recent years the group has also sponsored trips by Northeast Tennessee Congressman Phil Roe, and a staffer of Brentwood Republican Marsha Blackburn. During their time in office former representatives Lincoln Davis and John Tanner also went with AIEF.

Earlier this summer Memphis Democrat Steve Cohen also visited Israel, under a different sponsor – J Street Education Fund Inc, a “pro-Israel, pro-peace” group which favors a two-state solution.