Tel Aviv’s city hall is lit up with the Union Jack to mark the passing of Queen Elizabeth.
Laying it on, Mayor Ron Huldai says the queen was “among the most important and influential leaders the world has known.”
צער גדול ירד על בריטניה עם לכתה של המלכה אליזבת השנייה, מהמנהיגות החשובות והמשפיעות שידע העולם. הערב כולנו משתתפים בצער הממלכה המאוחדת. pic.twitter.com/tHG7gcmrc8
Alternate Prime Minister Naftali Bennett offers thoughts and prayers, while opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu sends condolences.
Elsewhere, World Jewish Congress head Ron Lauder praises Elizabeth as “an inspiration and source of comfort to Anne Frank in her hiding place in Amsterdam,” while noting the monarch’s visit to Bergen-Belsen in 2015 to commemorate its liberation.
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburg, Prince Philip lay a wreath during a visit to the memorial site of former Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen on June 26, 2015. (AFP/JULIAN STRATENSCHULTE)
“Queen Elizabeth’s refusal to flinch in the face of evil, but instead to fight it with every formidable fiber of her character, will be an inspiration for generations to come,” he says.
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