Arik Lederman, suspected of spitting at the Polish ambassador to Israel, apologized for the act.
"I would like to express my apologies for yesterday's incident," he said. "I encountered a disparaging attitude on the part of one of the employees of the embassy who called me a 'Zhid' (a derogatory term for a Jew in Polish). I want to clarify that I certainly did not know about the identity of the vehicle's occupant or his job. "