Yad Vashem 
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SOURCE: Washington Post
3/2/2022
Yad Vashem Hopes to Shield Oligarch and Major Donor Roman Abramovich from Sanctions
“Mr. Abramovich has contributed to worthy causes for more than a decade,” [Yad Vashem chair Dani] Dayan said. “As far as I know, Mr. Abramovich doesn’t have any links to Mr. Putin.”
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SOURCE: New York Times
11/28/2020
Israel’s Pick to Head Holocaust Memorial Stirs International Uproar
“You don’t play politics with the Shoah, and this is playing politics with the Shoah,” Professor [Deborah] Lipstadt said. She is one of 750 historians, Jewish studies experts and cultural figures who signed a petition protesting the appointment of Effie Eitam to head Israel's national Holocaust memorial.
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SOURCE: Forward
11/19/2020
Effi Eitam Leading Yad Vashem Disgraces the Memory of the 6 Million
by Derek Penslar and Susannah Heschel
"The politicization and radicalization of the institution will rob it of its legitimacy. Yad Vashem cannot fulfill its responsibilities with Effi Eitam at its helm."
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SOURCE: Jerusalem Post
11/15/2020
Dozens Of Academics Oppose New Controversial Yad Vashem Chair
Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt is among the academics criticizing the appointment of a right-wing politician to head the Israeli Holocaust memorial and educational center, arguing that his remarks toward Palestinians and Arab Israelis are disqualifying.
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SOURCE: Haaretz
11/8/2020
Revered Polish Jew, Holocaust Survivor Joins Protests Over Top Appointment at Yad Vashem
A prominent Polish Holocaust survivor has objected to the appointment of Effi Eitam, an Israeli politician and former military commander, to chair the directorate of the Holocaust memorial because of inflammatory statements calling for the deportation of Palestinans from the West Bank and calling Arab Israelis a "fifth column."
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SOURCE: WaPo
5-7-13
Israeli Holocaust memorial seeks to preserve memory of the 6 million victims, a name at a time
REHOVOT, Israel — With a hand on her chest, 82-year-old Rivka Fringeru battled back tears as she reeled off a list of names she has rarely voiced in the past 70 years: her father, Moshe, then her mother, Hava, and finally her two older brothers, Michael and Yisrael.All perished in the Holocaust after the Harabju family from Dorohoi, Romania, was rounded up in 1944 and sent to ghettos and camps. Only Rivka and her brother Marco survived, and like many others, they spent the rest of their lives trying to move on and forget.Now, Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust memorial and museum, is asking them to remember.Decades after the Holocaust, experts have documented the names of about 4.2 million of the roughly 6 million Jews who were killed by the Nazis in World War II, and officials are going door-to-door in a race to record the memories of elderly survivors before their stories are lost forever....
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SOURCE: NYT
3-24-13
With Obama as broker, Israelis and Turkey end dispute
JERUSALEM — Under persistent prodding from President Obama, Israel and Turkey resolved a bitter three-year dispute on Friday with a diplomatic thaw that will help a fragile region confront Syria’s civil war, while handing the president a solid accomplishment as he closed out his visit to the Middle East.
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