The Israel Cabinet last night decided to grant posthumous Israeli citizenship to the 6, 000,000 Jewish victims of the Nazi regime.
This move was made in connection with the Cabinet’s approval of draft legislation providing for the establishment in Jerusalem of a memorial the martyrs and to Jewish soldiers who served heroically on all fronts and under all Allied commands in the last war.
The bill provides that the government establish a special board, in which the Jewish Agency and the Jewish National Fund will participate, with powers to raise funds and to prepare carry out plans for a memorial. The bill is scheduled to go to parliament next week.
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