Moshe Kantor awarded Italy’s highest honor for non-citizens
Italy awarded Moshe Kantor, the president of the European
Jewish Congress, its highest decoration given to a non-Italian.
Kantor was honored earlier this week with the Knight’s
Grand Cross of the Order of Merit “for his work in promoting tolerance and
reconciliation, human rights and interfaith dialogue, and his struggle against
anti-Semitism and racism,” the European Jewish Congress said in a statement
Wednesday.
Kantor was in Rome as part of the World Jewish Congress
Steering Committee, which met with Italy’s foreign minister Giulio Terzi di
Sant'Agata on Monday.
Headed by World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder,
the group also included Latin American Jewish Congress President Jack Terpins,
Euro-Asian Jewish Congress President Vadim Shulman, as well as the president of
Italy’s umbrella Jewish group.
The European Jewish Congress statement said that during
the meeting Kantor “asked for Italy’s help in adding Hezbollah to the European
Union list of proscribed terrorist groups in the wake of the evidence
demonstrating that the Lebanese-based terrorist group was behind the murder of
Israeli tourists in Burgas last year.”
It said that Sant'Agata had reiterated the importance of
Italy’s relationship with Israel and the Jewish community.
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