Israeli Cultural Institute Opens Herzl Centre In Budapest
- 3 Dec 2013 5:00 AM
The Israeli Cultural Institute in Budapest has opened a centre named after Tivadar Herzl, a 19th-century Jewish journalist and writer born in Pest who is considered to have been the father of modern political Zionism. Minister for Human Resources Zoltán Balog told the opening event on Sunday evening that learning is vital for different people and cultures living together.
From next year, the fact that Israel is “the democratic state of the Middle East and the country with the largest Hungarian-speaking minority outside the Carpathian Basin” will be included in the national curriculum.
President of Sochnut, the Jewish Agency for Israel, Natan Sharansky, expressed thanks to the Hungarian government for making it possible. Israeli Ambassador Ilan Mor said Herzl was a hero who took up the issue of Jews in Hungary.
The centre has been set up a few hundred metres from Herzl’s former home and will be open to the public from January 1, 2014.
Source www.hungarymatters.hu
Follow that link to sign-up for MTI’s twice-daily newsletter.
LATEST NEWS IN community & culture