Prime Minister visits Jewish Museum in Moscow

The Prime Minister of Israel, Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu, dedicated part of his short day and a half visit to Moscow – during which he had met Russian President Vladimir Putin on the Iranian issue – to a historic visit to the new Jewish Museum and Tolerance center.

“President Putin was correct yesterday when he told me that even in Israel there isn’t such a beautiful and sophisticated museum as here” was the concluding remark of Mr. Netanyahu at the end of the two-hour visit.

The visit was accompanied by the Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar; the president of the Federation of Jewish Communities in the FSU, Mr. Lev Leviev; the Israeli Ambassador to Russia, Mrs. Dorit Goldner; The President of the FJC of Russia R’ Alexander Baroda and by the Museum’s chairman R’ Baruch Gorin.

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2 Comments

  • I hope that

    Chabad Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar used this opportunity to say something to Israeli PM Netanyahu about Sh’Lemus Ha’Aretz

  • David

    I think it’s a בזיון that a Israeli prime minister can stand and point in an open Sefer Torah and holding in his hand holly books from the rabeyim without a yarmulke on his head.

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