In Jerusalem, President Reuven Rivlin at the Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony admits Israel has erred in the way it treated survivors, begging forgiveness and noting that while they were suffering in Europe, Jews in mandate Palestine, himself included, were living free lives.
“The Holocaust survivors living among us become fewer and fewer. It is time to conduct some soul-searching before you. We must admit that we were wrong. Holocaust survivors have never received the respect they deserved. Even to the present day, the State of Israel does not take every measure it can in order to take care of the Holocaust survivors,” he says.
“I ask each one of you, before it is too late, for forgiveness. We did not understand, we did not want to understand, and we have not done enough,” he adds.
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