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Knesset speaker to address Bundestag on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleAmy Spiro is a reporter and writer with The Times of Israel
Knesset Speaker Mickey Levy has arrived in Berlin for a state visit that will include an address to the Bundestag in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Levy’s visit is also slated to include meetings with new German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock. He is also scheduled to visit the historic House of Wannsee, the Berlin villa where the Nazis planned the Final Solution, as well as meet with two of his European counterparts, Bundestag President Bärbel Bas and Austrian National Council President Wolfgang Sobotka.
His slated address to the Bundestag on Thursday will mark the first time a Knesset speaker has addressed the German parliament.
“For the first time in history, the Speaker of the Knesset – the democratically elected parliament of the only Jewish state – will stand where more than 80 years ago Nazi oppressors called for the annihilation of our people before executing the most horrific crime in mankind’s history — the Holocaust,” says Levy in comments following his arrival in Berlin. “I will stand proud being Jewish, with six million silent souls by my side and deliver the speech in Hebrew, the eternal language of the Jewish people.”
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