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.
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Visits to Israel and the Territories of the Palestinian National Authority
April 27 − 29, 2005