The chairman and CEO of Credit Suisse apologized to the World Jewish Congress after an employee of the Swiss bank wrote in an open letter that Jewish leaders, including WJC officials, were responsible for creating the atmosphere that led to the recent murder of a rabbi in Zurich. “We deeply regret that a reproach of such gravity has been voiced against representatives of Jewish organizations,” Lukas Muhlemann said in a letter to the WJC.
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