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The Israeli defense contractor will supply the Portuguese Air Force with an electronic-warfare suite and customer-logistics support for its new KC-390 multi-mission aircraft.
The 5-Star Movement and center-left Democratic Party backed the motion, but the far-right League and its allies—the Brothers of Italy and former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia—all abstained.
“It is morally unacceptable and highly distasteful that anyone should trade in personal items, artifacts or documents of Holocaust victims or from the Holocaust era,” according to Yad Vashem.
“Scandalous,” Maximillian Marco Katz, head of the Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism in Romania organization, wrote on Facebook. “In any other country in Europe, such a building would have been long ago restored. Why not in Romania?”
An unknown assailant insulted the elderly man; when he tried to defend himself verbally, the assailant punched him, injuring his head and chin.
Bulgarian premier Boyko Borisov stressed that the Torch of Liberty award was for all of the Bulgarian people.
The tally of the resolution, which recognizes the 1915 Turkish massacre of 1.5 million Armenians, was 405-11. The tally of the sanctions bill was 403-16.
In recent years, the country has seen an increase in anti-Semitism and even physical attacks on Jews.
As part of a restoration project, they washed the gravestones, removed all dirt and trimmed the greenery.
Owner Oxford University will lend it to the Museo Centro Gaiás in Santiago for an exhibition titled “Galicia: A Story of the World.”
“This type of boycott is rooted in anti-Semitism and is in clear violation of Spanish law,” according to The Lawfare Project.
Built in the 15th century, it was abandoned until it was restored in 1921 by a Polish-born Jew, Samuel Schwarz.
