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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zalansky will deliver a speech to the Knesset early next week

The Ukrainian Ambassador and the Speaker of the Knesset agreed that the video call would allow the presence of as many Knesset members as possible in the speech, including those who are in delegations abroad and will be able to connect remotely.

Levy pledged to speak with all faction leaders to ensure the maximum attendance of MKs

Barak Ravid Vicky Adamkar

15/03/2022

Tuesday, 15 March 2022, 12:09 Updated: 12:27

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In the video: Zlanski warns that missiles are a matter of time (Photo: Reuters)

Knesset Speaker Miki Levy met this morning with Ukrainian Ambassador to Israel Yevgen Kornichuk and agreed with him that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zalansky will speak to members of the Knesset during the next week - according to senior Israeli and Ukrainian officials. Levy told the Ukrainian ambassador during the meeting

that

in light of the Knesset recess, Levy told the Ukrainian ambassador during the meeting that in light of the Knesset recess A zoom speech will allow the presence of as many Knesset members as possible, including those who are on delegations abroad and will be able to connect remotely.

Levy promised to speak with all faction leaders to ensure the maximum presence of MKs in the zoom call.

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Will speak in zoom.

Zlansky (Photo: AP)

On Sunday, Kornichuk met with Yad Vashem chairman Danny Dayan and asked him to allow a multi-participant rally with MKs, mayors and public figures where Zalansky would deliver a video speech. Yad Vashem officials said Dayan expressed sympathy with Ukraine during the meeting. However, a

senior Ukrainian government official noted that the background to Kornichuk's meeting at Yad Vashem was President Zalanski's desire to speak directly to the people of Israel, Zalansky hopes that, as in other countries in the world, his speech will influence public opinion to push the leadership to increase support for Ukraine.

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Levy and Kornichuk meeting today (Photo: Noam Moskowitz)

In a meeting with Dayan, the Ukrainian ambassador emphasized that the speech at Yad Vashem is not a substitute for Zalanski's speech in the Knesset, but a parallel track.

He noted that Zalansky was interested in speaking at Yad Vashem both because he was Jewish and because he believed that what Russia was doing in Ukraine was genocide, and that Yad Vashem had been established to commemorate genocide.

A Yad Vashem source said that Dayan objected to the ambassador's use of the term genocide and the frequent comparisons Ukraine makes between the situation in the country and the Holocaust - comparisons that Yad Vashem could not serve as a platform and made it clear that he did not Ukraine.

Dayan and the Ukrainian ambassador agreed to continue discussing the matter in the coming days.

At this stage, the chances of an event at Yad Vashem in the format that the Ukrainian president wants are low.

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