![]() Member of the Knesset (MK) _ the Israeli legislature _ Oren Hazan, of the ruling right-wing Likud party, introduced a law proposal to ban the government from conducting business with companies that collaborated with the Third Reich.įollowing the 1991 Gulf War until recently, Israel would regularly distribute gas masks to its entire population, which meant it had to purchase massive amounts of the protective equipment. The use of the masks during the Nazi genocide, or Shoah as it is called in Israel, was uncovered by researchers from Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center, Yodiot reported. ![]() The country obtains its gas masks from two companies: the German firm Drager and the American MSA, which used to be German and whose previous name was Auer.īased on recent findings, both companies manufactured gas masks that were used by Nazi soldiers as protection against the cyanide-based poison Zyklon B that was used to murder millions of Jewish people and other minorities in the infamous Nazi death camps between 19.Īccording to the newspaper, both companies have been long-time contractors of the Israeli government, furnishing gas masks used by the Ministry of Defense, the Fire and Rescue Authority, Israel Railways and the Israel Prison Service, among other state institutions. The State of Israel has been buying gas masks for decades from suppliers who also sold them to the Nazi regime, Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot reported Wednesday.
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