Shlomo Kook receives the decoration of honor/Chen Shalom
In a ceremony held at the office of Israel's first chief rabbi to commemorate Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef in Jerusalem, the Ambassador of Kazakhstan Stivaldi Borshkov presented the medal of honor to the Israeli media personality Shlomo Kook with the personal signature of the President of Kazakhstan Tokiev, for extraordinary achievements in dialogue between the leaders of religions and countries.
The special decoration was accompanied by a prestigious gold medal.
About a decade ago, Kook was appointed, on the recommendation of Chief Rabbi Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, as an official member of the Congress of Religious Leaders that has been held in Kazakhstan for over 20 years with the participation of leaders from all over the world.
The chief rabbis, the Pope, the UN Secretary General, leaders of countries and religions participate in the conferences.
At one of the conferences, it was announced that Kook had a secret meeting with the deputy speaker of the parliament in Iran.
The achievement is even more surprising due to the fact that the majority of Kazakhstan's citizens belong to the religion of Islam, and the decoration was given in the midst of the war.
The Republic of Kazakhstan is a country located in the central part of the Asian continent and is the ninth largest country In the world in terms of area and the largest landlocked country. The country borders Russia and China.
In the past Kazakhstan was part of the Soviet Union and there is an active Jewish community there. In the city of Almaty in Kazakhstan, Rabbi Levi Yitzhak Schneerson, the father of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, is buried. Last year, a direct flight between Israel and Kazakhstan was launched for the first time .
David Berger, in collaboration with Shuba Israel
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