An Israeli official is criticizing plans to unveil a statue in Romania honoring Yitzhak Rabin. Israel’s ambassador to Bucharest, Sandra Simovici, criticized the plan by Corneliu Vadim Tudor, an ultranationalist who is running for prime minister in elections slated for later this year, as an election ploy.
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