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Vladimir Putin met with veterans of the Great Patriotic War living in Israel

April 28, 2005, Jerusalem

Participants of the meeting thanked Vladimir Putin that they and another 20,000 veterans now living in Israel had been awarded with a jubilee medal dedicated to the 60th anniversary of Victory.

Additionally, the head of the Israeli Union of soldiers and partisans – invalids of the war with the Nazis, Avraam Koen, said that Israeli veterans had also produced a medal in honour of victory in the Second World War. The veterans gave this medal to the Russian President.

April 28, 2005, Jerusalem