“The Simon Wiesenthal Center mourns the passing of former Israeli Foreign and Defense Minister Moshe Arens,” said Rabbi Marvin Hier, Founder and Dean of the Wiesenthal Center and Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean and Director of Global Social Action.
“We remember him as a great defender of the State of Israel and the Jewish people. Arens minced no words, he was direct and always calledit the way he saw it. We remember his visits to Los Angeles and the Simon Wiesenthal Center with fondness,” Hier and Cooper alsosaid.
Arens (pictured) visited the Wiesenthal Center headquarters in September 1989, during his tenure as Foreign Minister.
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