Poland keeps ambassador at home amid dispute with Israel

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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s government said Monday that its ambassador to Israel will remain in Poland until further notice after Israel downgraded diplomatic ties with Warsaw and strongly criticized a new Polish law that restricts the rights of Holocaust survivors to reclaim property seized by the country’s former communist regime. Meanwhile, Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki defended the new legislation, which affects non-Jews and Jews alike, saying that it will end a period of criminal abuse in his country. The spat erupted after Poland’s president’s signed the new law on Saturday despite heavy pressure not t

Poland keeps ambassador at home amid dispute with Israel

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