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US State Department Special Envoy for Holocaust Ellen Germain on Saturday criticized the decision to remove Yad Vashem Chairman Danny Dayan, tweeting that "the United States appreciates the important work of Yad Vashem and its Director, who works with us on Holocaust education, remembrance and research." "Maintaining the independence of these institutions around the world is critical, especially as we face efforts to distort or deny the facts of the Holocaust," she said.
In recent days, Education Minister Yoav Kisch has publicly begun an impeachment attempt on Dayan, who has served as Yad Vashem chairman since 2021. Dayan is a former chairman of the Yesha Council who served as Israel's consul in New York – in Netanyahu's personal appointment – and is now close to MK Gideon Sa'ar, and even ran on the New Hope List in the 2021 elections, after which Sa'ar appointed him chairman of Yad Vashem in place of the previous chairman, Avner Shalev, who retired after 27 years.
Danny Dayan, February 28, 2021 (Photo: Flash 90, Gershon Allinson)
Since the formation of the new government at the beginning of the year, most government ministers have been working to oust and replace the appointments of the previous government with their confidants and associates, and Dayan's role has been marked in the Likud as a strategic goal since the formation of the new government. According to a report on Channel 12 News last week, the Prime Minister's Office was also outraged by singer Keren Peles' participation in a state event at Yad Vashem, two days after she participated in a protest rally in Kaplan. Likud sources told Walla! Because the decision to replace Dayan was made even earlier, when the government was formed, but the incident with the Peles Foundation contributed to the motivation for his ouster.
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