Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin this week thanked the Bulgarian people for saving 50,000 Jews during the Holocaust.
“We, the members of the Jewish people, remember and will forever remember the handful who came to our aid,” Rabin said in the Knesset in the presence of Bulgaria’s president, Zhelyu Zhelev, and his wife, Mariyka.
“A place of honor in Jewish history is reserved for the Bulgarian people and its heroes, including those who paid with their lives, who saved the lives of most of Bulgarian Jewry,” the prime minister said.
“The Bulgarian people believe that human dignity and democracy go hand in hand,” Zhelev said.
He characterized his three-day visit as an effort to explore cooperation with Israel for the sake of all countries in the Middle East, Mediterranean and Black Sea regions.
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