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Thursday, September 08, 2022

09/08 Links Pt2: Queen Elizabeth II dies at 96; After the ADL gets caught spreading woke ideology, Greenblatt must go; UK Jewish group Na’amod helped a Holocaust denier

From Ian:

Queen Elizabeth II dies at 96 - Buckingham Palace
Queen Elizabeth, Britain's longest-reigning monarch and the nation's figurehead for seven decades, has died aged 96, Buckingham Palace said on Thursday.

"The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon," Buckingham Palace said in a statement.

"The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow."

Her eldest son Charles, 73, automatically becomes king of the United Kingdom and the head of state of 14 other realms including Australia, Canada and New Zealand.

Former British Prime Minister John Major called Queen Elizabeth "selfless and wise, with a wonderful generosity of spirit," reacting to news that the monarch has died.

"For 70 years Her Majesty The Queen devoted her life to the service of our nation and its wellbeing," he said in a statement on Thursday. "In her public duties, she was selfless and wise, with a wonderful generosity of spirit. That is how she lived – and how she led."

"For millions of people – across the Commonwealth and the wider world – she embodied the heart and soul of our nation, and was admired and respected around the globe," he added.

All of Queen Elizabeth's four children including daughter Princess Anne and youngest son Prince Edward were at Balmoral Castle in Scotland with the British monarch, ITV reported. Prince Harry arrived as well.
Queen Elizabeth II: The life of the UK's longest reigning monarch - obituary
Despite the struggles, the queen fought for the royal family and took her role as queen very seriously.

She understood the changes she needed to make to the royal family to keep it current. In 1970, she allowed cameras into Buckingham Palace to film the royal family's domestic life in response to the demands of the public.

In 1978, the queen condoned the divorce of her sister, Princess Margaret. This was significant because divorce was still considered taboo in the monarchy.

Throughout her reign, the queen made many official trips to the various countries of the commonwealth as well as other locations around the world.

In 2017, Prince Phillip stepped out of public life, and in that same year, the queen began to delegate her duties to Prince Charles and Prince William.

In 2015, the queen became the longest-reigning monarch of the UK, surpassing Queen Victoria who reigned for nearly 64 years.

Her reign spanned 15 prime ministers beginning with Winston Churchill who was in office when she was coronated in 1953 and ending with Liz Truss who she appointed on Wednesday.


Jewish community expresses condolences as Queen Elizabeth II’s reign comes to an end
Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom Ephraim Mirvis released a video message on Twitter praising the queen, saying she “embodied the most noble values of British society.”

“Throughout her extraordinary reign, she conducted herself with grace, dignity and humility and was a global role model for distinguished leadership and selfless devotion to society. In an ever-changing world, she was a rock of stability and a champion of timeless values,” he added. “Every week in synagogue we have prayed for her welfare, wellbeing and wisdom and she never let us down.”

He applauded her “warm relationship” with the Jewish community, adding that she had a particular commitment to “interfaith relations and Holocaust memorial.”

“I recall how, on one occasion, she showed me and my wife items of Jewish interest and value in her private collection in Windsor Castle, including a Torah scroll rescued from Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust. Her affection for the Jewish people ran deep, and her respect for our values was palpable,” he said.

The Conference of European Rabbis released a statement saying, “Together, Chief Rabbi Mirvis and the U.K. and the U.K. Jewish community, the Conference of European Rabbis (CER), its President Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt and the chairman of its Standing Committee Dayan Menachem Gelley join in mourning the passing of HM Queen Elizabeth II. Her dignified, devoted leadership will endure as an exemplar model for all. May her family find comfort.”

Michael Goldstein, president of the United Synagogue, the largest synagogue body in Europe, called the Queen “a constant for generations of United Synagogue members, the wider Jewish community and the nation at large.”


Israeli leaders mourn death of Queen Elizabeth II: Ties ‘flourished’ under her reign
Israeli leaders on Thursday mourned the death of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II after a record-setting reign of 70 years.

Elizabeth took the throne following the death of her father King George VI in 1952, just four years after a then-nascent Israel was founded.

“On behalf of the Government and people of Israel, I send my condolences to the Royal Family and the people of the United Kingdom on the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II,” said Prime Minister Yair Lapid. “She leaves behind an unparalleled legacy of leadership and service.”

“May her memory be for a blessing,” he added, using a traditional Jewish phrase of commemoration.

President Isaac Herzog said the queen’s death was “the end of an era.”

“Queen Elizabeth was a historical figure — she lived history, created history and left behind her a magnificent and inspiring legacy,” he said. Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, third from left, poses with the Duke of Edinburgh, left, Queen Elizabeth II, right, Israeli

Herzog expressed condolences to King Charles, the former Prince of Wales who became monarch upon his mother’s death, the rest of the royal family and the British people, while hailing Elizabeth as a “symbol of stable and responsible leadership” in a world that changed dramatically during her rule.

“The Queen served the international community over 70 years, and under her reign, UK-Israel relations flourished. My thoughts are with the UK today,” Defense Minister Benny Gantz tweeted.

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu hailed the late monarch as “a beacon of integrity and a steward of a second Elizabethan age which will be remembered down the centuries.”

Israel’s Ambassador to the UK Tzipi Hotovely said the queen “was admired around the world as an inspirational and beloved stateswoman.”

“Israel stands with the Royal family and the British people in mourning the loss of The Queen,” Hotovely wrote on Twitter.

The Tel Aviv Municipality lit up the city hall building in the colors of the UK flag to commemorate the queen.


Queen Elizabeth II never came to Israel - comment
In her 70 years on the throne, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth traveled widely and visited many countries – nearly all the countries of the Commonwealth – Canada in particular. She visited Canada as many as 27 times, and after turning 50, she visited 43 different countries for the first time.

She visited Jordan, Egypt and other countries in the Middle East and North Africa – but never Israel.

Following her visit to Jordan in 1984, the queen raised some alarm among British Jews according to a report in The New York Times. Sympathetic comments she had made about the plight of the Palestinians and her seeming disapproval of Israeli actions caused more than a mere flutter among British Jews.

For all that, she was sufficiently well disposed to Israelis to receive then-presidents Chaim Herzog and Ezer Weizman and to confer an honorary knighthood on former president Shimon Peres.

Herzog did in fact invite her to Israel, and although the queen herself never came, her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, her sons Prince Edward and Prince Charles, and her grandson Prince William all came separately to Israel. However, the only official visit was that of Prince William.

It was commonly believed that the British Foreign Office, for fear of Arab boycotts, had advised the queen not to visit Israel, but even after there was no longer any real fear of boycotts and oil embargoes, the queen still did not come.
Simon Schama: We can't forget England's bloody antisemitic history
England’s Medieval history of persecuting the Jews must be remembered, says leading historian Sir Simon Schama.

Sir Simon spoke to the JC after DNA analysis revealed that the remains of at least 17 children and adults discovered in a Norwich well were Jews killed in a 12th- or 13th-century massacre.

He said: “I think it’s very important make Jewish history not just synonymous with the Holocaust or give the impression somehow that the Jews suddenly arrived in the 20th century, but [to explore] the intensity of the consequences of demonisation as Christ killers and all the rest of it, and the blood libel. The blood libel was invented in England essentially.

“All of that I think comes actually as a revelation.”

Sir Simon wrote and presented the five-part BBC TV series The Story of the Jews, which then became a best-selling book in three volumes.

Historical education in Britain, he said, ought to focus not only on Jewish persecution but also the contribution made by Anglo-Jewry to their society.

“The re-creation of Westminster Abbey as a sacred place for the veneration of kings was done only with hefty loans from Jewish moneylenders essentially.

“Jewish finance funded what one thinks of as native English monuments and memorials.

“And that too was only possible because Jews weren’t allowed to practise everybody else’s occupations. You cannot in my view teach the Holocaust without teaching the mediaeval Jewish experience. It’s sort of scandalous if you don’t.”
Jonathan Tobin: After the ADL gets caught spreading woke ideology, Greenblatt must go
According to the Anti-Defamation League, it’s just a mistake. A Fox News Digital exposé showed that the curricula they hand out to schools as part of their anti-hate programs included critical race theory (CRT) teachings about “white privilege,” the need to address the problems of “whiteness,” praise for the anti-Semitic Women’s March group and support for the idea of contemporary Americans paying reparations to those whose ancestors were enslaved.

Faced with hard evidence that its lucrative “No Place for Hate” initiatives are immersed in the woke leftist ideas that are actually legitimizing racialist attitudes and granting a permission slip for anti-Semitism, the ADL had no choice but to say that the Fox News report was accurate and that “there is content among our curricular materials that is misaligned with ADL’s values and strategy.”

Yet rather than admit that the inclusion of such ideas in the material they are pushing on schools reflected a broader problem in the group’s work, the ADL still insisted: “We do not teach critical race theory. Period.” That’s a blatantly dishonest and even illogical claim since the material in their curricula shows that is exactly what they’re doing.

The upshot of this weasel-worded non-apology is that the group founded to defend the Jewish people against anti-Semitism is trying to claim that this is all somehow a misunderstanding. They want their donors, who were under the impression that the ADL was belatedly confronting left-wing anti-Semitism, to believe that the organization isn’t actually part of the problem rather than the solution.

But no one should be buying this disingenuous line of defense. (h/t Jewess)
Walter Russell Mead (Wsj): A Century of U.S.-Israel Ties -- and the Conspiracy Theories
One hundred years ago, Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge (R., Mass.) and Rep. Hamilton Fish (R., N.Y.) steered a joint resolution through Congress, putting the U.S. on record in supporting a Jewish homeland in Palestine. The Senate vote was unanimous; the House whooped it through on a voice vote. In September 1922, President Warren G. Harding signed the resolution, launching a tradition of official American support for Zionist aspirations in Palestine that a long line of presidents from both parties have continued.

The Lodge-Fish Resolution unintentionally launched another tradition: belief among many Americans that American support for Zionism was the result of nefarious Jewish influence. Jewish wealth, the theory went, favored pro-Israel politicians while Jews supposedly imposed pro-Israel views on a press that they allegedly controlled. The two traditions coexist to this day. Support for Israel, while not unlimited or uncritical, dominates both parties in Congress, while controversies over the role of pro-Israel "Jewish money" in American elections continue to rage.

But the past 100 years tell a different story. American Jews, contrary to legend, aren't an irresistible political force. Two years after the Lodge-Fish resolution, Congress passed a system of immigration restrictions that reduced Jewish immigration to the U.S. by about 90%. The American Jewish community was unable to block this legislation. just as it was unable to persuade Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration to take strong action to protect Jews in Hitler's Germany.

Yet these years of Jewish powerlessness were peak years for anti-Semitic conspiracies. Henry Ford's Dearborn Independent, a newspaper distributed nationally was a platform for anti-Semitic propaganda. The Ku Klux Klan was near the height of its influence.

It wasn't simply that American Jews were too weak to impose Zionism on the American political system. Most of them didn't want to. Led by Henry Morgenthau, Woodrow Wilson's ambassador to the Ottoman Empire and the most influential Jewish political leader of the era, most prominent American Jews opposed the British government's Balfour Declaration and the Lodge-Fish Resolution that endorsed it.

During the 19 years between Israel's 1948 declaration of independence and its overwhelming victory in the 1967 Six Day War, American Jews were united and enthusiastic in supporting Israel. Yet U.S.-Israel relations were at their frostiest in that era.

The modern era of a close U.S.-Israel alignment began only after Egyptian President Anwar Sadat made peace with Israel and rapprochement with the U.S. The relationship deepened after the shah of Iran fell in 1979, and again after the 9/11 attacks when Israeli intelligence significantly assisted American counterterror efforts around the world.

It is the story of non-Jewish support for Israel that needs to be told. It is not only that American Christians going back to Boston Puritans like Increase Mather and colonial theologians like Jonathan Edwards believed that God would someday lead the Jews back to their biblical homeland. Politicians like John Adams and Theodore Roosevelt, and hardheaded businessmen, like John D. Rockefeller and J.P. Morgan, supported Zionist aspirations as well.

One hundred years after the Lodge-Fish Resolution, Jewish and non-Jewish Americans alike continue to debate America's relationship with the Zionist movement and the Jewish state. That is as it should be. Those who think that Jewish financial and media power are the forces that drive America's Middle East policy continue to miss the point. Anti-Semitic myths about Jewish power can't explain America's past policy in the Middle East and provide no useful guidance for the future.
David Collier: UK Jewish group Na’amod helped a Holocaust denier – and then lied about it
In this bombshell exclusive, I expose Na’amod, the self-proclaimed ‘anti-occupation’ UK Jewish group for ‘freedom, equality and justice for all‘ as dishonest, dangerous extremists.

Not only did Na’amod provide resources and help extremist Holocaust denier Pete Gregson with a ‘bogus antisemitism’ tour featuring Neturei Karta and the Muslim Brotherhood-linked Hamas terrorism defender, Azzam Tamimi. When caught in the act, Na’amod issued a blanket denial, smearing me their accuser as ‘far-right‘ and ‘pro-occupation‘. But I can now reveal email evidence, proving the full, shocking extent of their lies, and their willing endangerment of the Jewish community.

Background – Who is Na’amod?
Formed in 2018, Na’amod presents itself as a caring UK Jewish ‘anti-occupation‘ group striving for freedom for all. In truth, they are fringe of a fringe extremists, born out of a split from Yachad due to a horrific and widely-condemned event that saw Jewish people saying Kaddish for Hamas terrorists in London’s Parliament Square. Na’amod portrays itself as a student group – and certainly target Jewish students in their activism – but in reality most of those driving Na’amod are much older. Na’amod claim to be diverse in their views on Zionism, but accuse the mainstream UK Jewish community of immoral support for the occupation, and anti-Palestinian racism simply for expressing any perspective that is not a simple blanket condemnation of Israel. While they claim to be concerned about the human rights of both Israelis and Palestinians and proudly vaunt values of honesty and courage, in practice, everything about Na’amod suggests they are not what they pretend to be. And their support for, and malicious coverup of their contact with, infamous antisemite and Holocaust denier, Pete Gregson, proves it beyond a doubt.

Background – Pete Gregson and the ‘bogus antisemitism’ tour
Pete Gregson is a notorious antisemite and Holocaust denier, who has ties to a an Islamic Jihad-linked bogus charity. A Khazar conspiracy theorist who claims ‘Zionists are not Jews’, proven to have said the Holocaust was ‘exaggerated’ and exposed by Hope Not Hate and CST as part of Holocaust denial group, Keep Talking, Gregson has been expelled from the Labour Party, GMB union and virtually every Left-wing group possible for his antisemitism – and even hard-core anti-Zionists have distanced themselves from him. In short, Gregson is an obsessive enemy of the Jewish community.

In February 2022, Gregson set up a campaign about ‘bogus antisemitism’ which I began to investigate undercover. He started planning a tour of the UK to push this clearly antisemitic message, platforming two extremist figures: Dovid Weiss of Neturei Karta and Azzam Tamimi. Weiss previously attended a Holocaust denial conference in Tehran, and is friendly with the Iranian regime and Hezbollah. Azzam Tamimi is a leading figure of the Muslim Brotherhood, and supporter of Hamas in London who has said “I take pride in being a terrorist…I long to be a martyr.”.


Letter to Penguin about Aya Ghanameh
Re: Alleged Violations of Company Policy by Penguin-affiliated Author Aya Ghanameh

Dear Esteemed Members of Viking and Penguin Random House,

We write on behalf of StandWithUs, an international, non-profit organization dedicated to fighting antisemitism and educating the public about Israel. It has come to our attention that Aya Ghanameh, a children’s author soon-to-be-published under your subsidiary, Viking Books, has an extensive record of public online activity that appears to us as virulent antisemitic hate speech. Most notably, through her public Twitter account, Ghanameh has posted statements unabashedly promoting or whitewashing violence in the U.S., terrorism abroad, and bigotry against Jews (see Appendix below).

The unrepentant hatred Ghanameh appears to display for Jews and Israelis (archived on a Canary Mission page) is incongruent with the stated values of Penguin Random House. In your statement on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Penguin Random House commits to “ensuring an equitable and inclusive home where all are welcome and where every person is empowered to be themselves and to share their perspectives.” Ghanameh’s record of promoting antisemitism and violence is in direct opposition to these values.

While Ghanameh has a free speech right to post incendiary and hateful rhetoric online, you also have a right to make clear that your company strongly opposes this hate. Absent any condemnation or distancing of Penguin Random House from Aya Ghanameh’s statements, readers and staff may see your silence as tacit acceptance, and possibly even approval and normalization of antisemitism.
Predictable BBC reporting on IDF Abu Akleh investigation results
From the moment on May 11th when the news broke that Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh had been shot while in Jenin to report on an Israeli army operation, the BBC adopted – and heavily promoted – the version of events put out by her employer, her family, the Palestinian Authority and assorted political NGOs.

All along the way it has been perfectly obvious that any investigation into that incident by the IDF would be rejected by such parties unless it conformed to the narrative they had promoted from the very beginning, as was demonstrated in July when the US State Department issued a statement regarding the inconclusive results of analysis of a bullet said by the Palestinian Authority to have killed Abu Akleh.

On September 5th the IDF released the conclusions of its investigation into the incident and the Military Attorney General put out a related statement explaining why a criminal investigation is not warranted in this case.

“Following the completion of a series of investigations carried out by a dedicated task force, it appears that it is not possible to unequivocally determine the source of the gunfire which hit Ms. Abu Akleh. However, there is a high possibility that Ms. Abu Akleh was accidentally hit by IDF gunfire that was fired toward suspects identified as armed Palestinian gunmen, during an exchange of fire in which life-risking, widespread and indiscriminate shots were fired toward IDF soldiers. Additionally, it is important to emphasize and clarify that throughout the entire incident, IDF gunfire was fired with the intent of neutralizing the terrorists who shot at IDF soldiers, also from the area in which Ms. Shireen Abu Akleh was present. Another possibility which remains relevant is that Ms. Abu Akleh was hit by bullets fired by armed Palestinian gunmen.”

BBC coverage of that topic included a written report by Tom Bateman which was published on the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page on the afternoon of September 5th.

Notably, that report’s headline – “Shireen Abu Aqla: Israel says ‘high probability’ soldier killed reporter” – does not include the word accidentally or any similar term.
Media Push False Narrative About IDF Rules of Engagement Following Tragic Abu Akleh Death
Days after an internal Israel Defense Forces (IDF) probe concluded that Palestinian-American Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh was most likely shot by mistake by a soldier who did not identify her as a member of the press, the story continues to dominate the news cycle.

On Tuesday, amid an avalanche of censure from the White House press corps, State Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel said that the Biden Administration would “continue to underscore the importance of accountability in this case.”

“We’re going to continue to press our Israeli partners to closely review its policies and practices on rules of engagement [emphasis added] and consider additional steps to mitigate the risk of civilian harm, protect journalists, and prevent similar tragedies in the future,” he added, seemingly taking a jab at the IDF’s ethical code.

While journalists in the Jewish state denounced Patel’s comments as “American chutzpah” (audacity), his veiled criticism did not go far enough for some attending the State Department briefing. In lengthy follow-up questions, Matt Lee (Associated Press) and Said Arikat (Palestinian daily Al-Quds) seemingly pushed the administration to call for criminal charges against the Israeli serviceman thought to have fired the fatal shot.

Yet their insistence on holding Israel “accountable” has little to do with getting justice for Shireen Abu Akleh.
Indy corrects article omitting errant Palestinian rockets
As we noted to editors, it’s not true that there were 49 civilians, including 17 children, killed by Israel in airstrikes. In fact, the very source embeded in the sentence is an Associated Press piece which makes it clear that far more than “several” of those killed in Gaza were “fighters”, while also adding that many of the Palestinains (up to 16) were likely killed by errant PIJ rockets.

After serveral follow-up emails to editors, our complaint was finally upheld, and the sentence revised thusly:
The attack came a week after several children were reported to be among at least 47 civilians and Palestinian fighters killed by airstrikes over the Gaza Strip. Sixteen people were reportedly killed by Palestinian rockets that fell short.

The following addendum was added:


BBC Arabic Journos Delete Disturbing Tweets After HonestReporting Uncovered Anti-Israel Posts
Several journalists working for the British Broadcasting Company’s Arabic service have gone on a Twitter scrubbing spree to remove numerous anti-Israel tweets, which constituted a flagrant violation of the UK taxpayer-funded outfit’s employee social media guidelines.

Among the most offensive posts that have now vanished from Twitter include one that refers to the Jewish state as the “terrorist apartheid state of Israel” and another that labeled all Israelis “terrorists.”

It is therefore clear that the journalists featured in our piece were well aware of how their social media postings broke the BBC’s rules on how its journalists should conduct themselves to avoid conflict with the broadcaster’s commitment to impartiality.

As we pointed out at the time:
The BBC has made it clear in the past that disclaimers in social media profiles, such as ‘my views [are] not the BBC’s,’ are not a defense against ‘personal expressions of opinion on social media that may conflict with BBC guidelines.’

Breaching such rules can reportedly result in disciplinary action, including possible termination of employment.”

Although HonestReporting reached out to the BBC to ask how the corporation would respond, we have yet to receive a definitive response, except to say that breaches of the company’s rules are dealt with appropriately.

Worryingly, several of the tweets we drew attention to still remain live, including those from one journalist who repeatedly expressed her wish that Israel would “go down” and foul-mouthed rants about the Jewish state.

We can therefore assume that the broadcaster believes adherence to its own guidelines by staff is unnecessary, at least where such breaches pertain to Israel-Palestinian issues.
As Hunger Striking Palestinians Spark Media Fury, Israeli Detention Policy Gets Twisted Along the Way
Critics of Israel’s administrative detention policy also consistently overlook the fact that it is not used solely for the purpose of detaining Palestinians.

This is despite the fact that Jewish Israelis have also been made subject to administrative arrest warrants for decades, including several earlier this year under an order made directly by Defense Minister Benny Gantz.

In an op-ed published last year, Israel’s former ambassador to the United Kingdom, Mark Regev, discussed another oft glossed-over aspect of administrative detention — specifically, that Israel’s High Court has previously ruled that these detentions are an extreme measure that must be cautiously used.

The court has made abundantly clear that these orders must only be made when there is no other legal recourse available and cannot be applied punitively. That is, the individuals upon which they are applied must present a clear and direct danger to public safety.

Israeli law contains numerous safeguards to ensure the application of administrative detention is not abused, such as the requirement that all intelligence and alternatives to the order are reviewed by a military prosecutor and then a judge.

There is an additional right to appeal the decision before a judge and later Israel’s Supreme Court if the order is upheld, with all hearings heard in Hebrew and concurrently translated into Arabic if necessary.

Lastly, there is a six-month limit on detention, which can only be extended if the initial process for the order is repeated in full.

Israel’s legal safeguards comprise a powerful framework against arbitrary and unlawful detention that is consistent with other democratic nations.

It is therefore clear that administrative detention is neither distinctive nor egregious. Yet, it is invariably treated as such when Israel when makes use of it to protect its citizens.
Israeli use of barn owls to control rodents heading to N. Africa, UAE
An Israeli project to use nesting boxes to attract barn owls and kestrels to control rodents instead of using chemicals is set to spread its wings to North Africa and the United Arab Emirates.

Veteran ornithologist Yossi Leshem, director of the International Center for the Study of Bird Migration, told a conference on Wednesday that the project, established in 2002, was being adopted by Prof. Imad Cherkaoui, a Moroccan ornithologist and landscape ecologist and former Morocco director for BirdLife International.

Cherkaoui is slated to serve as the project’s ambassador in North African countries with which Israel has no diplomatic relations, Leshem said.

He added that the United Arab Emirates’ climate change and environment minister had indicated that his country would also adopt the project, after meeting with Leshem at the Dubai Expo, which ended earlier this year.

“This is about how we want to see the Middle East,” Leshem told the confab on nature restoration (also known as rewilding), organized at Ramat Hanadiv by the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel, in partnership with the Israel Nature and Parks Authority and the Konrad Adenauar Foundation.

“We failed with the dove of peace. The barn owl is doing much better.”
In first, Israel to host WHO conference of European health officials
In a first, Israel next week will host a World Health Organization conference for European ministers and top health officials, the Health Ministry announced Thursday.

The meeting will be held September 12-14. According to the WHO, it will be attended by representatives from the 53 countries in the UN health agency’s European region.

The Health Ministry said the conference will feature deliberations on a joint plan for improving health in Europe and include sessions on public health, health crises and improving regional cooperation on health, among other issues.

Health Ministry Nitzan Horowitz said the scheduled attendance of his counterparts and the European delegations was “really important to the country and our health system.”

“The policies we have implemented in the last year and the performance of the Israeli health system in the fight against the coronavirus really stood out on the world stage,” Horowitz said in a statement. “The WHO conference in Israel is an opportunity to continue to strengthen our ties with the world, with the World Health Organization and with European countries.”

According to the Health Ministry, Horowitz will sign bilateral cooperation deals on health with officials from Germany, Croatia, Cyprus and Kazakhstan during the meeting.




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