The chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel offered to teach Iran’s president about the Holocaust. “I would be happy to host him at Yad Vashem and explain to him what befell our nation,” Ze’ev Bielski said of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has repeatedly denied the Holocaust and called for Israel’s elimination, during a speech Tuesday to the 35th Zionist Congress in Jerusalem.
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