Iran will not get a nuclear weapon, US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee tells members of the World Jewish Congress in Jerusalem.
“The president is very clear: They are not going to have a nuclear weapon, they are not going to enrich, they are going to have total dismantlement, and those are the words that he has put,” Huckabee says at the opening gala event of the WJC’s plenary assembly, held at the Museum of Tolerance.
“So whatever they are discussing, those are the criteria that the president has set forth. Even if they said they agree to it – do we believe them? That becomes the next big question. Do we believe them? They haven’t kept anything they’ve said for 46 years.”
More than 300 Jewish leaders and delegates from more than 70 countries are attending the three-day assembly, at which WJC delegates will elect the organization’s leadership and vote on policy resolutions for the next four years.
Philanthropist and newly appointed WJC Israel Region Chair Sylvan Adams announced that the organization would launch an initiative to try to encourage one million Jews to immigrate to Israel, without providing further details.
During the event, Adams and Huckabee presented a special award to freed hostages Tal Shoham, his wife Adi, and children Yahel and Naveh.
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