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Effi Eitam

Yad Vashem chief Dani Dayan in the Hall of Names at the Jerusalem museum, undated. (Alex Kolomoisky)
September 6, 2023, 4:56 am
Yad Vashem museum looks to drop American charity that provides 30% of its budget
US society for Israel’s main Holocaust museum says chairman Dani Dayan seeks to ‘raid’ its endowment; Yad Vashem cites efficiency plans and need ‘to maximize global mission’
By Canaan Lidor
Ronen Plot attends an Economy Committee meeting at the Knesset on May 20, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash 90)
December 23, 2020, 2:43 am
Amid leadership controversy, Yad Vashem appoints Ronen Plot as acting chairman
PM has struggled to get controversial ex-general Effi Eitam confirmed to top position at Holocaust museum, a move further delayed by fall of government
By ToI Staff
Piotr Cywinski, the director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, at a press conference in Oswiecim, Poland, January 26, 2020. (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images/ via JTA/ SUE)
December 21, 2020, 3:42 pm
Normally reticent Auschwitz museum director wades into Yad Vashem controversy
Piotr Cywiński makes the unusual move of speaking up about an Israeli plan for hawkish Effi Eitam, who has been accused of racist rhetoric, to head Israel’s Holocaust center
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Chairman of the Afek oil drilling company, Effi Eitam, seen at the Supreme Court during a hearing on oil searching in the Golan Heights, on December 23, 2014, in Jerusalem. (Flash90)
December 13, 2020, 9:39 pm
Far-right ex-minister picked to head Yad Vashem hits back at ‘baseless’ censure
Effi Eitam says he never called for expulsion of Palestinians, merely warned that it could be a consequence of a violent uprising against Israel
By ToI Staff
The empty Warsaw Ghetto Square at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, during the Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 21, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 30, 2020, 2:44 pm
Along with row over its next head, Yad Vashem faces cash crunch due to pandemic
Squabbling politicians leave famed Holocaust memorial and research center without funding — and, come January, without a director
By Haviv Rettig Gur
EffieEitam speaks during the Gush Katif conference at the Tel Aviv Museum on March 23, 2017. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
November 29, 2020, 4:48 pm
Effi Eitam appointment would negate Yad Vashem’s core message
OPINION: The former brigadier general’s public record renders him unfit to do battle in the fight against trivializing the memory of the Holocaust
By Efraim Zuroff and Yossi Klein Halevi
Chairman of the Afek oil drilling company, Effi Eitam, seen at the Supreme Court during a hearing on oil searching in the Golan Heights, on December 23, 2014, in Jerusalem. (Flash90)
November 19, 2020, 10:12 pm
750 scholars push against tapping of far-right ex-minister to head Yad Vashem
Jewish studies professors and directors of Jewish and Holocaust museums sign petition opposing proposed appointment of Effi Eitam to chair Israel’s Holocaust museum
By Ben Sales
EffieEitam speaks during the Gush Katif conference at the Tel Aviv Museum on March 23, 2017. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
October 27, 2020, 11:41 pm
Apparent pick of nationalist ex-minister to head Yad Vashem sparks outcry
Some fear former brigadier general Effie Eitam, who has a history of harsh rhetoric toward Palestinians, could tarnish reputation of Holocaust memorial and museum
By Joseph Krauss
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