“Poland approved today, not for the first time, an anti-Semitic and immoral law,” Foreign Minister Yair Lapid stated.
Top Israeli officials condemned the ratification Saturday by Poland’s President Andrzej Duda of a controversial law curbing the ability of Jews to reclaim properties seized by Nazi German occupiers and retained by post-war communist rulers.
“Tonight I ordered the supervisor of the embassy in Warsaw to return immediately to Israel for consultations indefinitely,” Foreign Minister Yair Lapid stated Saturday night. “You should never be silent. Israel and the Jewish people will surely not be silent.”
“Israel views with utmost gravity approval of the law that prevents Jews from receiving compensation for property that was stolen from them during the Holocaust and regrets the fact that Poland has chosen to continue harming those who have lost everything,” Prime Minister Naftali Bennett declared.