Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu paid his last respects to journalist Noah Klieger on Sunday, during a farewell observance at Yediot Ahronot House in Rishon Letzion.
Calling Klieger a "Holocaust fighter", Netanyahu cited Klieger for his efforts to save fellow Jews in Belgium and France before he was caught by the Gestapo and sent to Auschwitz. The prime minister also recalled what he called Klieger's grasp of the scope of the Holocaust and the scope, the meaning and the need for the rise of Israel after the Holocaust. He also cited Klieger for his objectivity as a journalist.