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President Joe Biden spoke with United Arab Emirates Crown Prince Mohamed bin Zayed yesterday. The White House said Biden “underlined the strategic importance of the normalization of relations between the United Arab Emirates and Israel,” noting his “full support for strengthening and expanding these arrangements.”
Jared Kushner is launching an organization called the “Abraham Accords Institute of Peace,” aimed at deepening ties between Israel and the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco, together with Avi Berkowitz, Haim Saban, UAE Ambassador Yousef Al Otaiba, Bahrani Ambassador Abdulla Al-Khalifa, and Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi. Rob Greenway, formerly a top Middle East advisor to President Donald Trump, will serve as executive director.
Joni Ernst (R-IA), and
Kevin Cramer (R-ND) introduced the Holocaust Insurance Accountability Act . The legislation would allow beneficiaries of Holocaust-era insurance policies to bring civil action in U.S. district courts against the insurer for the covered policy to recover proceeds due or otherwise enforce any rights under the policy. Representative
Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) introduced companion legislation in the
U.S. House of Representatives.
Most recently, Rubio reintroduced the Holocaust Insurance Accountability Act in the 116th Congess. Rubio previously introduced the legislation in the 112th, 114th, and 115th
Congress with former Senator
Bill Nelson (D-FL). The Holocaust remains humanity s darkest hour, leaving a permanent stain on history for all nations, Rubio said.
Rep. Wasserman Schultz, Sen. Rubio: Restore Rights of Holocaust-Era Insurance Policy Beneficiaries
Targeted News Service (Press Releases)
WASHINGTON,
April 13, 2021:
U.S. Sen.
Marco Rubio (R-FL)reintroduced bipartisan legislation today to restore the rights of Holocaust-era insurance beneficiaries in recovering billions in unclaimed payments that were left behind amid the chaos and destruction of World War II.
Due to federal court rulings and a failure by insurance companies to adequately publish the names of recipients and pay these claims, 97 percent of the approximately 800,000 policies held in 1938 have yet to be honored. The insurers demand that death certificates and original policy paperwork be produced was all-but impossible for many of those families who, at the time, had just survived death camps, experienced forced relocations, torture, and death marches.
(JTA) In 2007, Leo Rechter, testified at a U.S. congressional hearing urging action to speed up the public opening of Nazi war records held at Bad Arolsen in Germany.
Then the long-serving president of the National Association of Jewish Child Holocaust Survivors, or NAHOS, Rechter told legislators that the voices of thousands of Holocaust survivors across the country were too often absent from the organizations responsible for assisting them.
“Of all the public records in the world, what possible justification can there be to prevent us from learning the truth about what happened to our families during the Holocaust?” Rechter asked.
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