Global Jewish Groups Outraged over UNESCO Western Wall Resolution | Jewish & Israel News Algemeiner.com

The Birkat HaCohanim (“priestly blessing” in Hebrew) at the Western Wall in 1995. Photo: Moshe Milner/the Israeli government press office via Flickr.com.

OCTOBER 20, 2015 5:46 PM 17
Author:  Algemeiner Staff

Jewish groups around the globe roundly condemned a proposal introduced by six Arab countries at the U.N.’s cultural arm that would strip Israel’s cultural and historic ties from the Western Wall plaza.

Senior officials at the Simon Wiesenthal Center held a conference call with UNESCO’s director-general,the Bulgarian diplomat Irina Bokova, who had already condemned the incendiary nature of the Arab proposal.

Source: Global Jewish Groups Outraged over UNESCO Western Wall Resolution | Jewish & Israel News Algemeiner.com

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