The Minister of Education Yoav Kish spoke with his Polish counterpart, Peszmibles Cernak.
During the conversation, the Polish Minister of Education invited Minister Kish for an official visit to Poland ahead of the upcoming Holocaust Day - Minister Kish responded positively.
In the conversation between them and the meeting they will hold, the two will try to act in order to return the Israeli youth delegations to Poland on Holocaust Day as part of the "March of Life" and on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
About a week ago it was published in "Israel Hayom" about significant progress in the talks between Jerusalem and Warsaw about the renewal of the Ministry of Education's trips to the extermination camps in Poland.
In recent weeks, there have been several rounds of talks between the countries on the controversial issues, and a government delegation went to Poland to look for solutions.
Israelis visit camps in Poland, photo: Yossi Zeliger
Since the fall of the Iron Curtain in the late 1980s and the renewal of the possibility to enter Poland freely, about 40 thousand students and teenagers have toured the concentration and extermination camps in Poland, as part of official trips by the Ministry of Education.
In the last three years the journeys have stopped.
Initially, it was the corona epidemic that prevented entry to Poland.
But about a year and a half ago, with the decline of the epidemic, an acute conflict broke out between the countries.
One of the reasons for this was the harsh statements of the then Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, who said: "We are not afraid of anti-Semitic threats, and we will not blink in the face of the anti-democratic government of Poland."
Lapid even instructed the Polish ambassador not to return from his homeland vacation in Warsaw, and ordered the designated Israeli ambassador, Dr. Yaakov Livna, to remain in Israel.
We are not afraid of anti-Semitic threats, and we will not blink in the face of the anti-democratic government of Poland." Yair Lapid, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
At the same time, Israel stopped the youth delegations going on educational tours of the extermination camps.
The stoppage of the journeys was justified by Polish interference in the contents and security problems.
In recent years, Poland has been working to change the image that stuck to it, as if it had been part of the systematic extermination of the Jews by the Germans.
As for security, the government in Warsaw claimed that there was no justification for armed Israeli security guards to accompany the youth.
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