(Jewish Group) Israel's US ambassador warns that Jews should never take their safety for granted

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Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. warns that Jews should never take their safety for granted

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israel’s new ambassador to the U.S. warned of rising antisemitism and the costs of widespread ignorance about the Holocaust.

‘When we say ‘never again,’ it is not only that we don’t want such a horrendous phenomenon to recur. But it is the acknowledgment that something similar to that may recur,” Michael Herzog said Thursday in his first interview with an American news outlet since he became ambassador in November.

Herzog, a retired brigadier general in the Israel Defense Forces, also discussed his family’s commitment to protecting Jews during and after the Holocaust and in strengthening Israel. His father, Chaim Herzog, served as president of Israel from 1983 and 1993. His grandfather, Rabbi Isaac Halevi Herzog, pleaded with President Franklin Roosevelt to protect the Jews from the Nazis.

His father’s story
Herzog said his father was a law student when he decided to volunteer for the British army in the early 1940s, and was part of the first Allied division that entered Nazi-Germany and liberated the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on April 15, 1945.

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