Sharansky laments this government will be remembered for crisis with US Jews

At today’s weekly cabinet meeting, government ministers discuss Israel’s relationship with Diaspora Jewry.‬

‪Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky praises the various projects initiated by the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs, alongside those of the Jewish Agency.‬

‪At the same time, he stresses that we are in the midst of a real crisis: “It is a terrible shame that a government that is headed by someone [Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] who has contributed so much, who launched Taglit-Birthright Israel and established the Ne’eman Committee, and which includes a diaspora affairs minister who has significantly expanded the budget for programs within his purview, should go down in history as having widened the gap between Israel and the Diaspora and deepened the current crisis with American Jewry,” he says.

— Marissa Newman