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Thursday, March 20, 2025
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Thursday, March 20, 2025
Israel’s ambassador in Germany hosts celebration for Kurdish new year
Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter
(From left - Ambassador Ron Prosor, Minister President of Saxony-Anhalt Reiner Haseloff, , German Kurdish leader Ali Ertan Toprak celebrate Nowruz at Prosor's residence, March 20, 2025 (Ruti Tzunes/Israeli Embassy in Germany)
Israel’s ambassador to Germany Ron Prosor hosts a Nowruz celebration at his residence to mark the Kurdish new year.
Prosor is joined by Reiner Haseloff, Minister President of the German state Saxony-Anhalt, senior Kurdish leader in Germany Ali Ertan Toprak, and other senior German politicians.
“If you ask the minorities in Syria — the Alawites, the Druze, and the Kurds — if they would rather live under HTS rule or in a union with Israel, they would choose Israel,” says Toprak.
Prosor says that Kurds and Israelis have much in common: “Both want a peaceful Middle East, both are threatened by extremists, but we won’t let ourselves be afraid.”
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