King Juan Carlos of Spain told European Jewish representatives that he has never understood how earlier Spanish monarchs could have expelled the Jews from Spain in 1492. The king received leaders of the European Council of Jewish Communities at the Zarzuela Palace during the group’s General Assembly, held in Madrid.
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