Bill on recognition of Holodomor in Ukraine as genocide submitted to Israeli Knesset

A bill declaring December 6 an official day honoring the victims of Holodomor and recognizing the famine in Ukraine as an act of genocide was introduced for consideration of the Israeli Knesset. The document was submitted by a member of the coalition party Kulan Akram Hasson on February 7.

An explanatory note to the draft law says that the Holodomor was planned by "the Soviet authorities to strike at the Ukrainian nation and Ukrainian national identity."

Deputy’s entourage says that the idea of the bill arose after his visit to Ukraine in December 2017.

"Deputy Hasson visited the Holodomor Museum and remained deeply impressed, and this prompted him to initiate this law," his relatives said.