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“Prosor’s extensive experience and familiarity with the Israeli foreign service will greatly contribute to the challenges in the international arena,” says Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid.
The funding of about $1,400 per person is part of a Supplemental Hardship Fund Payment that was negotiated last year and originally planned to be distributed in two payments by the end of 2022.
“We are losing precious time dealing with new Iranian positions inconsistent with the JCPOA or that go beyond it,” say European representatives.
The choice of the 40-year-old Green Party member leaves analysts and the media unsure over effects on the domestic Jewish community, anti-Semitism and Israel policy, among other things.
“We now have a culture minister who is a close friend of the Iranians and who has bowed her head wearing a headscarf in front of the mullah regime, in addition to being a supporter of the boycotters of Israel,” said Sacha Stawski, head of the pro-Israel watchdog group Honestly Concerned.
The virtual celebration took place on the third night of Hanukkah; it ended with a menorah-lighting at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
Ahead of the 83rd anniversary of Kristallnacht, Eve Kugler, 90, visited her hometown of Halle, Germany, and recalls the horrifying period that led to her family fleeing for their lives.
The initiative is part of the #WeRemember campaign.
Germany’s police union also censured the incident, calling it “tasteless” and saying there should be “consequences” for those involved.
The system, which is to be integrated with Germany’s Leopard 2 tanks, achieved an interception rate exceeding 90 percent, according to the Israeli Defense Ministry.
Israel said its decision was due to NGO financing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a designated terror group.
Anti-Semitism official Samuel Salzborn in Berlin filed a criminal complaint, saying “it is obvious that right-wing extremists deliberately chose a Jewish grave in order to disturb the eternal peace through the internment of a Holocaust denier.”
