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BICOM 16th April 2021 What happened: Israeli leaders paid their respects to the late Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip and sent condolences to the Royal Family ahead of his funeral at Windsor Castle this weekend. In a letter to the Queen, President Reuven Rivlin described Prince Philip as “a man of honour and duty,” referencing his service in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. The President noted Prince Philip’s visit to Israel in 1994, the first senior member of the Royal Family to do so, and recalled his speech at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center. The Prince said, ‘We may dislike individual people, we may disagree with their politics and opinions, but that should never allow us to condemn their whole community simply because of the race or religion of its members … the Holocaust may be over, but there are altogether too many examples in the world today of man’s capacity for inhumanity.’ Rivlin n

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