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Vatican City, May 16, 2014 \/ 05:42 am (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- In an unprecedented session held earlier this week, members of the Israeli parliament praised St John XXIII for his efforts in improving Jewish-Christian relations, both before and during his pontificate.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cJohn XXIII should serve as an example for all men of the need to bring together peoples of different races, faiths and beliefs,\u201d former immigration and absorption minister Yair Tzeven voiced during the May 13 event, according to the Jerusalem Post.<\/p>\n

\tThe paper reports in a May 13 article that during the encounter members of the parliament, known as the Knesset, gave special attention to the saint\u2019s efforts in saving Jews during the holocaust while serving as Apostolic Nuncio to Turkey.<\/p>\n

\tHe was also praised for laying the groundwork of Nostra Aetate, a declaration of the Second Vatican Council that was instrumental in reconciling Jewish and Catholic relationships.<\/p>\n

\tPublished in 1965, the document was released after the pontiff\u2019s death and rejected former claims against the Jewish people, principally that they were guilty of Jesus\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

\tCanonized last month alongside Polish Pope Saint John Paul II, John XXIII was born in Italy as Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, and served as the Supreme Pontiff from 1958 until his death in 1963.<\/p>\n

\tWhile an archbishop, Roncalli was appointed as apostolic delegate to Turkey and Greece in 1934, which is a position held for the majority of World War II. While serving in Istanbul, the future Pope distributed numerous documents to Jewish refugees who were fleeing the Nazi regime and attempting to make their way to Mandatory Palestine.<\/p>\n

\tThe archbishop also wrote thousands of such documents to the Vatican\u2019s ambassador in Budapest at the time, Angelo Ratti, who was working with the diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, among others, to save Jews from the terrors of the Holocaust.<\/p>\n

\tRoncalli\u2019s efforts during the war are credited for helping save thousands of Jews from the Nazi concentration camps, the Post reports, including many from Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary.<\/p>\n

\tSpeaking during the Knesset\u2019s session, the Jerusalem Post states that Tzeven recalled how five years ago many historians, authors and public figures in Israel called on the state to recognize John XXIII\u2019s actions during the Holocaust as well as his efforts in repairing relations with the Jewish people, and praised Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein for supporting this recognition of the pope.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThere has not been an event like today\u2019s in the history of the Knesset, an event which is so important to our relations with the Christian and Catholic world\u201d Tzeven explained, noting that \u201cJohn XXIII should serve as an example for all men\u201d of the need for unity.<\/p>\n

\tFollowing Tzeven\u2019s remarks, the Post reports that Edelstein then opened the session by stating that \u201cPope John XXIII was known as a humanist, a sensitive man and someone who helped save Jews during his service as a papal emissary in Turkey.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tContinuing, the Knesset speaker remarked that Rabbi Yitzhak Herzog, the grandfather of the parliament\u2019s current opposition leader Isaac Herzog who was also present at the meeting, \u201crecognized John XXIII as an exceptional person who served as a contact person for the various rescue operations of Jews throughout Europe (during the Holocaust).\u201d<\/p>\n

\tRising to the podium after the Edelstein, Herzog recalled the frequent meetings held between then-Archbishop Roncalli and his grandfather, noting that \u201cWhen the news from Europe first reached my grandfather, he did everything to save Jews.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cAs part of these efforts, he met many times with Roncalli and stated that at these meetings the Archbishop wept,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cJohn XXIII made tremendous efforts to save Jews, and because of him thousands of Jews were indeed saved.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tObserving how \u201cthis special person served just five years as pope,\u201d Herzog recounted how \u201cHe took up the post at age 77 and initiated a massive revolution;\u201d one which \u201cestablished that Judaism was the older brother to Christianity.\u201d<\/p>\n

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