PRESIDENT REUVEN RIVLIN: ‘WE HAVE NOT DONE ENOUGH’ FOR HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS:

 Israel's President Reuven Rivlin at Yad Vashem Wednesday night, 4 May 2016, expressed criticism of the state for failing to care for the needs of Holocaust Survivors. The issue requires "soul-searching” by the country. "Even to the present day, the State of Israel does not take every measure it can in order to take care of the Holocaust Survivors,” said Rivlin. "My brothers and sisters, survivors, the heroes of Israel’s revival, I came here today on my own behalf, and on behalf of the people of Israel, on behalf of the State of Israel, and I ask each one of you, before it is too late, for forgiveness. We did not understand, we did not want to understand, and we have not done enough.” Some 189,000 Holocaust Survivors live in Israel, of whom 45,000 live under the poverty line. Rivlin highlighted the importance of the remembering the Holocaust, noting that this would be the last generation to meet with Survivors. "In another generation, there will not be anyone left living among us who survived that hell, and who could say, 'I was there, I saw the horror with my own eyes.'" (J. Post)