Reparations: Germany’s debt and duty, Israel’s challenge – The indebted sum represents then-East Germany’s share in the historic 1952 Reparations Agreement, which has not been paid to date. | The Jerusalem Post

If the ministers of the Israeli government participated in the Slichot prayers on Yom Kippur, among the dozens of Slichot, in the order of confession, there are two that deserve attention. One, for a sin which we have sinned before God in short shortsightedness and the other – of ignorance.