PM: Red Army soldiers ‘saved the Jewish people’
Knesset honors WWII vets on 67th anniversary of Nazis’ surrender
Ilan Ben Zion is an AFP reporter and a former news editor at The Times of Israel.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets Russian-Israeli World War II veterans on Veterans Day, May 09, 2012. (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/Flash90)
World War II veterans ensured the establishment of the State of Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the Knesset on the 67th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s surrender.
The prime minister, speaking at a special plenary session in honor of the Allied victory, told the gathered vets, “You saved the Jewish people, and you guaranteed a Jewish future.”
Netanyahu added that an international monument honoring the soldiers of the Red Army will be erected with the assistance of the Russian government.
“I am doing this in tribute, bowing my head in honor of the medals gracing your uniforms,” he said.
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