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Herzog likens Farhud to Kristallnacht, honors survivors

6/3/2026

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President Isaac Herzog likened the 1941 Baghdad Farhud to Kristallnacht and the 2023 Oct 7 attack at remembrance ceremony.
Survivors attended the President’s Residence ceremony where filmmaker David Kahtan displayed 80 black-and-white portraits of child Farhud survivors.
Panelist Nadia Cohen, widow of spy Eli Cohen, said the Farhud is less remembered than the Holocaust, noting Operation Ezra and Nehemiah moved 120,000 Iraqi Jews within a broader displacement of 850,000 African Jews.

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President Isaac Herzog likened the 1941 Baghdad Farhud to Kristallnacht and the 2023 Oct 7 attack at remembrance ceremony.
Survivors attended the President’s Residence ceremony where filmmaker David Kahtan displayed 80 black-and-white portraits of child Farhud survivors.
Panelist Nadia Cohen, widow of spy Eli Cohen, said the Farhud is less remembered than the Holocaust, noting Operation Ezra and Nehemiah moved 120,000 Iraqi Jews within a broader displacement of 850,000 African Jews.