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Hungary pulling anti-Soros campaign ahead of Netanyahu visit
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe Hungarian government is reportedly pulling a billboard campaign targeting Jewish billionaire and philanthropist George Soros, three days before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to visit the country.
The government says the anti-Soros campaign had reached its goals and was no longer necessary, the Haaretz daily reported, citing a report in the Hungarian TV network ATV.
The statement says a new law regulating the display of political posters in public places was due to come into effect on July 15.
Israel and Jewish groups had slammed the anti-immigration campaign that attacked Soros as being anti-Semitic.
Netanyahu will meet with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in the capital Budapest on July 15.
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