Israel’s Chief Rabbi Remembers Armenian Genocide Victims

As Armenia Liberty reports on 22 November 2005, "Israel’s Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger referred to the 1915-1918 massacres of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey as genocide and prayed for its estimated 1.5 million victims at the end of a two-day visit to Armenia on Tuesday."

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“Nobody can feel the pain of the Armenians more deeply than we Jews,” added the Rabbi.

Regnum News Agency quotes the Chief Rabbi saying, “as a representative of the clergy, I do recognize the fact of the genocide, and everything else depends on the political and international relations.”

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