Israel’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid reported that he instructed the attorney in the affairs of the Jewish state in Warsaw immediately return home “for indefinite consultations” after signing by the Polish President Andridge Dudi amendments to the legislation that limit the rights of the property from them in the Holocaust.
Today [August 14] Poland has not for the first time approved the anti-Semitic and immoral law. Tonight I instructed our attorney in Warsaw to return to Israel to Israel immediately. The new Israeli Ambassador to Poland, who had to leave soon In Warsaw, at this stage it will not go to Poland. Today, the Israel Foreign Ministry will recommend to Poland in Israel to continue vacation in his own country, “Lapid’s TASS leads.
The Head of the Israeli Foreign Ministry noted that “Poland has become an anti-democratic, non-liberal country that does not honor the greatest tragedy in the history of mankind,” adding that Israel “leads coordination negotiations with Americans on how to respond to the approval of the law.” “It is impossible to be silent in such a situation,” Lapid emphasized.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennet also condemned the signing of amendments. “This is a shameful decision and shameful contempt for memory of the Holocaust. Israel negatively perceives the adoption of a law, which prevents the receipt of compensation for ownership with Jews, stolen from them during the Holocaust, and regrets that Poland decided to continue the harm to those who lost everything.”, – Dissected the statements of Bennet’s office.
In August, the Polish Parliament approved the amendments to the legislation, according to which, after 30 years from the date of administrative decisions, including the right of ownership of property, it will not be possible to challenge it. On Saturday, they were signed by the President of the country.