Yad Vashem, Israel’s official Holocaust memorial and museum, is embroiled in controversy after attempting to intervene in planned sanctions against Israeli Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich.
Yad Vashem itself did issue a “vehement condemnation” of theScholz’s visit comes a week after Yad Vashem and Roman Abramovich announced a new partnership to fund research and contribute to new projects, including two new versions of the Book of Names, according to a statement on the museum’s website.
On Saturday, Abramovich announced that he decided to give control of Chelsea to trustees of the club’s charitable foundation. The team is not for sale. On Monday, the European Union slapped sanctions on the Ukrainian-born Russian billionaire banker Mikhail Fridman, who lives in London and holds Israeli citizenship.Over the weekend, Fridman described the war as a “tragedy” and said that war “can never be the answer.” But in a news conference with journalists in London, he said that he would not directly criticize Putin’s invasion of Ukraine so as to avoid reprisals against his employees.
Sophie Shulman, an Israeli Russian journalist focusing on the oligarch community in Israel, said that Jewish Russian oligarchs have taken on Israeli citizenship, purchased homes and invested in Israeli tech companies but usually do not live permanently in Israel. Many come to celebrate Passover in the Negev desert, Shulman said.correction
An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated the date of Russia's annexation of the Crimean Peninsula. It happened in 2014.
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