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Diplomat who used fake passports to save hundreds of Jews during WWII named Righteous Among the Nations

The illegal passports were paid for by Jewish groups, while the Polish diplomats acted as the middlemen, giving bribes or producing the fake passports. Twitter/@PLinSwitzerland/Polski Przegląd Dyplomatyczny

Konstanty Rokicki was a consul in Bern, Switzerland, where together with other Polish diplomats who called themselves the Bern Group they prepared passports for those in danger of deportation to get them out of Europe, mainly to Paraguay, but also Honduras, Peru, Salvador, Bolivia and Haiti.

PM likens words of Israeli foreign minister to those of a “radical extremist”

In an interview for Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper, Morawiecki takes a swipe at the Israeli foreign minister and those who “re-write history” but insists there is no crisis in Polish-Israeli relations.  

Radicals should not be allowed to rewrite history - PM

In an interview for the Haaretz daily published on Friday, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that Poland should not allow some radicals to rewrite history.

High street madness as shoppers storm new Reserved store in Israel

The new Tel Aviv store opened Wednesday after luring hundreds of Israelis with the offer of free plane tickets and was then forced to close when it ran out of stock.

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