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Israel appoints Argentine Dani Dayan as head of the Jerusalem Holocaust Museum

2021-08-22T19:04:18.608Z


He appointed him president of Yad Vashem. Thus he put an end to the controversy that was generated last year after the nomination of a controversial figure from the radical right.


08/22/2021 3:29 PM

  • Clarín.com

  • Politics

Updated 08/22/2021 3:52 PM

The Israeli Government on Sunday appointed Argentine

Dani Dayan

as president of the

Shoah Yad Vashem memorial, the Jerusalem Holocaust Museum

.

Thus he put an end to the controversy raised by the previous prime minister, who had proposed a controversial figure from the radical right.

Dayan

was Israeli consul in New York

and headed the Council of Yesha, the main organization representing Israeli settlers in the West Bank.

Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had previously nominated

Effi Eitam

, a former radical right-wing military man with a history of controversial remarks about Palestinians and Israeli Arabs, as director.

Researchers, historians and survivors of the Jewish genocide

criticized this choice,

understanding that it went against the values ​​of this museum, visited before the pandemic by hundreds of thousands of people and foreign dignitaries.

The Hall of Names in the Holocaust Museum.

The institution happens to be chaired by an Argentine.

Photo EFE

As reported by the Jewish News Agency (AJN), Dayan

left Argentina at the age of 15

, when he emigrated to Israel.

"He created a high-tech company and then sold it, abandoning the business world for politics with the then unique mission of

saving the settlement movement and preserving the Land of Israel,

" the AJN noted.

In 2007 he was elected to head the Yesha Council.

Secular and fluent in Spanish, Hebrew and English, Dayan managed to build bridges between the Council and mainstream Israel, as well as with the international community.

Dani Dayan lived in Argentina until he was 15 years old, when he decided to emigrate to Israel.

AFP photo

As a result, the AJN noted, a special envoy position was created for him on the council, even after he stepped down from his leadership role in 2013.

Benjamin Netanyahu appointed him consul general of Israel in New York in 2016.

With information from AFP and AJN

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