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Israel, Poland to restore relations strained by Holocaust restitution row

FILE PHOTO: Poland's President Andrzej Duda attends a NATO summit in Madrid, Spain June 30, 2022. REUTERS/Susana Vera

Israel and Poland have agreed to improve relations that had deteriorated after Warsaw introduced a law last year limiting the ability of Jews to recover World War Two properties, saying on Monday they would mutually restore ambassadors.

The move marked a shift for new Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid, who as foreign minister had denounced as "anti-Semitic and immoral" the bill affecting property seized by Nazi German occupiers and retained by Poland's post-war communist rulers.

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