Naftali Bennett “has accepted President Putin’s apology for Lavrov’s remarks,” the Israeli leader’s office said in a statement on Thursday.
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“Hitler also had Jewish blood.” The words of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov caused an uproar. Russian President Vladimir Putin has apologized to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett for the statements made by his chief diplomat a statement from the Israeli leader’s office posted on Thursday 5. “The Prime Minister accepted President Putin’s apologies for Lavrov’s remarks and thanked him for clarifying his attitude towards the Jewish people and the memory of the Holocaust,” it said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett discussed the Holocaust on Thursday, amid controversy after Moscow accused Israel of supporting “neo-Nazis” in Ukraine, the Kremlin previously said. In a telephone interview, they spoke in particular about the importance of May 9, the date on which Russia celebrates the victory over Nazism and which makes it possible to honor “the memory of all victims” of World War II, “including the victims of the Holocaust ,” according to the Kremlin.
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