A special event honoring the 80th anniversary of the Hungarian Jewish community who perished in the Holocaust was held Friday with the participation of senior officials of KKL-JNF and KKL Hungary.
The event, which included a one-minute silence in memory of the victims, was attended by Hungarian Agriculture Minister Istvan Nagy, who was the guest of honor, Kobi Davit, founding President of KKL-JNF Hungary and Central Europe, Binyamin Lidsky, KKL-JNF's envoy to Hungary, KKL-JNF CEO Yuval Yeni, Ronnie Vinnikov, head of Resource Development and External Affairs Division at KKL – JNF, the head of the Jewish community of Hungary, Andor Gross and more.
The event also included a touching speech from Davidi Ben Zion, a reserve IDF captain who, as part of the operation in Gaza found Hitler's Mein Kampf translated into Arabic in the house of one of Hamas commanders and presented it at an event in Hungary.