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Shevah Weiss, former Israeli ambassador to Poland, died at the age of 87 on Friday. His death was announced on Twitter by Haaretz journalist Ofer Aderet. He will be buried on Sunday in Jerusalem.

It is with deep sorrow that we learned of the passing away of Shevah Weiss, former Speaker of the Knesset, ???? Ambassador to Poland and a true friend of ????, awarded with a Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.
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— ??????? ????? (@PLinIsrael) February 4, 2023

Shevah Weiss was born into a Polish-Jewish family in 1935. During World War II, his family hid from German soldiers with the help of Ukrainian and Polish families. This experience pushed him to always protest when Poland was accused of complicity in the Holocaust, or when Poland’s role in saving Jewish was being undermined, his friend recalled according to Polish Rzeczpospolita newspaper.

“When people in the world ask me about Jedwabne, I remind them that there were other barns in that same Poland. Barns where Poles risked their lives to keep Jews. I myself am a man from such a barn,” he told Rzeczpospolita in an old interview.

Weiss also protested when the world spoke of “Polish death camps”. “This is a shameful lie and wickedness. After all, besides Jews, hundreds of thousands of Poles perished in these camps,” he argued.

Career achievements

In 1947 he emigrated to Israel, where he became a professor of political science at Haifa University.

From 1981, he was a member of the Knesset and later Chairman of the Israeli parliament. In 2000, he gained worldwide fame when, as President of the Yad Vashem Council, he hosted Pope John Paul II during his historic visit to Jerusalem.

That same year he was appointed Israel’s ambassador to Poland and became a symbol of dialog between the nations.

“It was with great sadness that I received the news of the passing of His Excellency Shevah Weiss,” wrote Polish President Andrzej Duda in a Tweet. “A Wonderful Man, Jew, Israeli patriot, who loved and respected Poland. Knight of the Order of the White Eagle. A great loss for us and the Polish-Israeli relations. R.I.P.”

Z wielkim smutkiem przyj??em wiadomo??, ?e odszed? J.E. Szewach Weiss. Wspania?y Cz?owiek, ?yd, izraelski patriota, który Polsk? kocha? i szanowa?. Kawaler Orderu Or?a Bia?ego. Wielka strata dla nas i dla polsko-izraelskich relacji. R.I.P.

— Andrzej Duda (@AndrzejDuda) February 4, 2023

Recognising Weiss’s efforts in promoting the Polish-Jewish dialog, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, pointed out in his tweet that Weiss was not only at one time an Israeli ambassador to Poland, but was also “a great Polish ambassador to Israel”.

“A friend of Poland, but also quite simply a good and wise man, who will be greatly missed. Rest in Peace,” the Polish PM wrote.

At the age of 87, Szewach Weiss, a longtime Israeli ambassador to Poland and a great Polish ambassador to Israel, has passed away. A friend of Poland, but also quite simply a good and wise man, who will be greatly missed. Rest in peace.

— Mateusz Morawiecki (@MorawieckiM) February 4, 2023

Shevah Weiss was a columnist for “Rzeczpospolita,” daily newspaper among other publications. He was a lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as well as the University of Warsaw. Weiss was also awarded Poland’s highest order, the Order of the White Eagle as well as the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.

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Rzeczpospolita