Shmuel Tolkowsky

Shmuel Tolkowsky the secretary of Chaim Weizmann (later became first president of Israel) wrote, with approval of Weizmann and Nachum Sokolov, who were two very important leaders of the Zionist Movement at this time. The Banality of Denial: Israel and the Armenian Genocide By Yair Auron, Cathy Collins Block, Michael Pressley, p.1] Shmuel Tolkowsky himself was the son-in-law of Yitzhak Goldberg, a founder of the Jewish Foundation Fund. [The Global Political Economy of Israel - Page 114 by Jonathan. Nitzan, Shimshon. Bichler]

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cquote|We Zionists look upon the fate of the Armenian people with a deep and sincere sympathy; we do so as men, as Jews, and as Zionists. - "Shmuel Tolkowsky, 1918" The Banality of Denial: Israel and the Armenian Genocide By Yair Auron, Cathy Collins Block, Michael Pressley, p.1]

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