New Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen on Monday said he plans to speak with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday in what will be Jerusalem’s first official contact with the Kremlin since the attack on Ukraine began last February, Axios’s Barak Ravid reports.
“On the issue of Russia and Ukraine we will do on thing for sure – speak less in public,” Cohen said, which at the very least is a major shift toward “neutrality” from the previous Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s open condemnation of war crimes committed against Ukrainians. Lapid himself was a shift from his shitweasel predecessor Naftali Bennett, who in March scolded Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky – the only Jewish head of state outside of Israel – for invoking the Holocaust in comparison to Russian war crimes in Ukraine, calling Zelensky’s language “forbidden.”