For Antwerp leader Cathy Berx, Israel represents ‚the summary of humankind‘ – “Israelis tend to have a strong sense of what the challenges are throughout the world and finding very smart solutions to deal with them,” the governor of the Antwerp Province in Belgium told JNS. | JNS.org

(February 3, 2020 / JNS) With the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, world leaders and particularly European leaders came to Jerusalem not just to commemorate the attempts of Jewish genocide that took place on their soil, but to once again see the rapid ascension of Israel as a world power in the aftermath of the Holocaust.