Orit Noked

Israeli Minister Of Agriculture Speaks About Similarities Between The Histories Of Armenians And Jews In Tsitsernakaberd

ARMENPRESS APRIL 16, 2012 YEREVAN

YEREVAN, APRIL 16, ARMENPRESS: A delegation headed by Israeli Minister of Agriculture Orit Noked visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex. As Armenpress reports, the minister put a wreath and paid tribute to the memory of the innocent victims. Orit Noked, accompanied by Armenian Minister of Agriculture Sergo Karapetyan and Director of Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Hayk Demoyan, also visited the museum-institute and familiarized herself with the exhibits.

"As a woman, as a Jewish and as a human being, I am shocked at what I see in the photos, I am shocked at the murders of innocent Armenian families," Orit Noked wrote down in the Commemoration Book of the museum-institute. The Minister of Agriculture watered the fir-tree she had already planted in the Memorial Park.

Orit Noked sees similarities between the destinies of Armenians and Jewish people. "We are like each other with our history, character, with our small number of population and having communities abroad," Mrs. Noked said in an interview with Armenpress. There is an Armenian community of about 15000 in Israel.

More than 20 countries have recognized and condemned the Armenian Genocide committed by the Ottoman Turkey in early 20th century.

Israel is not yet among those countries. The issue of the Armenian Genocide was first raised in Knesset in 2007. The representatives of "Likud" and "Merets" factions have repeatedly called for Israel to end up with denial policy and recognize the Armenian Genocide.

Parallels are very often drawn between the Armenian Genocide and Jewish Holocaust. The Holocaust was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi Germany.

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