The Dorner Commission investigating the State of Israel’s treatment of Holocaust survivors has submitted its report. Headed by retired Supreme Court Justice Dalia Dorner, the commission had harsh words for the state’s treatment of the survivors, citing in many cases, much of the reparation funds earmarked for the victims of the Nazi atrocities were used elsewhere, as determined by government officials.
The commission is calling on the government to fund a minimum of 75% of pension payments for some 45,000 survivors who technically are not entitled to receive money from Germany because they immigrated to Israel too soon. Realizing it may be too little too late, the commission is seeking to do much to permit survivors to enjoy the remaining years with the feeling and understanding the state is admitting it has wronged them, treated them poorly.
Dorner pointed out that the very fact that her committee was just appointed, 60 years after the Holocaust, shows the state’s failure in addressing the needs of survivors. She called the state’s treatment of survivors “a crime,” stating there should not have been a need for such a commission since the needs of the victims and the moral responsibility were obvious.
Although quite late for the survivors, most elderly citizens today, she stated the red tape regarding their medical needs and other quality of life issues must be pushed aside and much must be done to ease their burden at this late stage in their lives.
Receiving the report was State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss, who told Dorner the report will remain high on his office’s priority list.
Justice Dorner was praised for the committee’s expeditious and thorough investigation towards correcting the wrongs of the past decades.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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If you really want to know how big of a crime the bigwigs of the zionist movement commited against the martyrs of the holocaust, read Ben Hecht’s Perfidy. As an aside, it is facinating to note that the way he psycho-analyzes the zionist figures of that era fits quite well with those in our time as well, Hashem yeracheim.