In a dramatic turn of events, Yad Vashem, Israel’s official Holocaust memorial, said on Wednesday that it has terminated its longstanding relationship with its U.S. fundraising arm, amid an intra-organizational financial dispute which is the subject of an Israeli government investigation.
The decision to cut ties with the American Society for Yad Vashem, which was established over four decades ago in order to assist with funding for Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Center and is its largest donor arm after the Israeli government, was made public just days after a wave of unsourced Israeli media reports suggested that the government was trying to replace Yad Vashem’s chairman Dani Dayan for political reasons.
