Knesset to discuss Israel-Poland deal on resumption of youth trips

18 April 2023, 4:01 pm

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Jewish students visit the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp after the March of the Living annual observance, in Oswiecim, Poland, April 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Yesh Atid MK Meirav Cohen, who heads a special committee to deal with Holocaust survivor welfare, announces she will convene a meeting to discuss the recent deal between Israel and Poland on the resumption of school trips to Nazi former death camps.

The deal has drawn widespread criticism with many saying it ignores Polish complicity in the Holocaust and aggrandizes efforts by Poles to save Jews.

“This injustice needs to be corrected. It is not too late to do so,” says Cohen, adding that she will summon those involved in signing the agreement.

The deal was drawn up and signed by the foreign ministers of both countries last month but still needs to be ratified by the Israeli and Polish parliaments.