The Jewish Agency opened a website on Thursday inviting foreign Jews to send personal messages of congratulations to Shimon Peres, who was elected President on Wednesday. Jewish Agency head Zeev Bielski sent a letter to dozens of Jewish communities worldwide, in which he said that the day of Peres’s victory was “a day of satisfaction, great happiness, and gratification for the state of Israel and Diaspora Jews.”



Bielski praised Peres for “more than seventy years of dedicated action on behalf of the state of Israel and the Jewish people.”