The Israeli pop star said that receiving 12 points from Poland during Eurovision had been a "victory" after her family was killed there during the Holocaust.
The flurry of outrage, castigation and near damnation was all over the news and commentary programs, the author writes.
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The proposed agreement is nothing less than a spit in the face of Polish Jewry in Israel and around the world, including the survivors and their heirs
The memory of the Shoah must be preserved with accuracy and honesty and the recent Polish-Israeli agreement should be scrutinized for its potential to distort history.
Chikli closed out each letter emphasizing that "it is of the utmost importance for me to reach out to you personally about this problematic incident."
Yad Vashem says it won’t be involved in group visits to any site suspected of distorting events.
Some may be "saddened we resolved the political crisis with Poland that began during the Lapid era,” Cohen charged on Monday.
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