Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu canceled plans to address the Jewish federations’ annual General Assembly.
“The Prime Minister hoped to go to the G.A., but unfortunately he will have to be in Israel during that week,” the Jewish Federations of North America said in a statement Oct. 25, less than two weeks before this year’s GA launches in Denver.
Sources said Netanyahu pulled out because the GA conflicted with planned commemorations of the 1995 assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. — jta