Holocaust memorial has apologized for revisionist videos shown at World Holocaust Forum but won’t say who produced, or vetted, the pro-Russian content; Forum also keeping mum.
A total of 184 new immigrants (olim) making aliyah from Ukraine via the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews landed in Israel on six separate flights on Jan. 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
President tells Andrzej Duda that Nazi Germany had assistance from across Europe, which ‘demands acceptance of responsibility’ by relevant parties; invites him to Jerusalem.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu several stories about Ukrainians who saved Jews during World War II, and about his own family that suffered from the Holocaust.
Yad Vashem says Volodymyr Zelensky’s gesture is ‘puzzling,’ since museum has made efforts to enable those who lived through Nazi genocide to attend international ceremony.
Morawiecki says Red Army failed to take opportunity to liberate Auschwitz in 1944; Polish president says won’t meet Katz until he apologizes for ‘suckling anti-Semitism’ comments.
Naama Issachar, 26, was sentenced last year 7.5 years in prison in Russia for allegedly possessing 9.5 grams of cannabis in her luggage, while on a stopover in Moscow on her way from India to Israel.