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“Europe must understand: Turning its back on Israel at this time is turning its back on Europe\u2019s own interests,” Isaac Herzog said. “And we will all pay the price.”<\/p>\n
“Isolating Israel plays directly into the interests of extremists who seek to destabilize and harm the free world,” President Isaac Herzog<\/a> said at a German Unity Day event in Herzliya earlier this week.<\/p>\n Speaking at the event, hosted by German Ambassador to Israel Steffen Seibert, Herzog stressed the important collaborations between the Jewish state and Germany, as well as with the rest of Europe.<\/p>\n “The collaboration in the present between Israel and Germany, and also between Israel and Europe at large, across science, research, culture, and so much more, serves the mutual interests of all partner countries. And it is important to state in these times: It must continue,” the president said, adding that “I have no doubt that both Israel and Europe have everything to gain from economic ties between us. And everything to lose from weakening them.”<\/p>\n However, he criticized the calls from within Europe to isolate or exclude Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Europe must understand: Turning its back on Israel at this time is turning its back on Europe\u2019s own interests,” he said. “And we will all pay the price.”<\/p>\n