Putin apologized for Lavrov’s words about Hitler's Jewish roots-the office of the Prime Minister of Israel

Israel reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin during a telephone conversation with Israel Prime Minister, Bennett, apologized for the words of Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov about Jews and anti-Semitism, Bennetus’s office reports .

“The Prime Minister accepted President Putin for Lavrov’s words and thanked him for explaining the president’s attitude towards the Jewish people and the memory of the Holocaust,” the report said.

What exactly Vladimir Putin said to the prime minister of Israel is not reported. In the Kremlin’s information about the results of negotiations of Putin and Bennett there is no information about apologies by the Russian president.

In an interview with the Italian television company Mediaset, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, arguing about the so -called denacing of Ukraine, said :

“He [Vladimir Zelensky] puts forward an argument: what kind of nationification they have if he is a Jew. I can be mistaken, but A. Hitler also had Jewish blood. This means absolutely nothing. The wise Jewish people says that the most ardent anti -Semites are usually Jews. “The family is not without a freak,” as we say, ”said Lavrov.

Lavrov’s statement caused a violent reaction in other countries and, in particular, in Israel. The head of the country's government naphthali Bennett, who had previously adhered to a neutrality on the issue of war in Ukraine, first made a sharp condemnation of Russia.

The head of the Israeli Foreign Ministry Yar Lapid after that said that the Russian government should apologize to Israel and the Jewish people for the words of the minister.

“We make every effort to maintain good relations with Russia, but there is a feature, and this time it was crossed. The Russian government must apologize to us and the Jewish people, ”said Lapid.

Against the backdrop of tension in relations between Russia and Israel, on May 4, a delegation of the Hamas terrorist group flew to Moscow. At meetings in Moscow, bilateral relations between Russia and Hamas and the situation in Jerusalem will be discussed.