INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Israel's Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Thursday that Russian leader Vladimir Putin has apologized for remarks made by Moscow's top
diplomat, Sergei Lavrov, who claimed Adolf Hitler may have had "Jewish blood."The comments had sparked outrage in the Jewish state."The
Prime Minister accepted President Putin's apology for Lavrov's remarks and thanked him for clarifying his attitude towards the Jewish people
President Volodymyr Zelensky "puts forward an argument of what kind of Nazism can they have if he himself is Jewish."Lavrov, according to a
transcript posted on the Russian Foreign Ministry website, then added: "I could be wrong, but Hitler also had Jewish blood."Israeli Foreign
the comments as "lies" that he said effectively "accuse the Jews themselves of the most awful crimes in history," perpetrated against
invaded Ukraine in February, with Bennett stressing Israel's close ties to both Moscow and Kyiv.Bennett has in particular sought to preserve
military support, instead suppling bullet proof vests and helmets for medical workers, as well as an Israeli field hospital.Bennett has
attempted to mediate in the conflict and is among a handful of world leaders to meet with Putin since the invasion, traveling to Moscow in
