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Dutch King Defies Mosques to Attend Opening of New Holocaust Museum alongside Israel's President
(Jewish Chronicle-UK) Daniel Ben-David - Dutch King Willem-Alexander defied calls by an alliance of over 200 Dutch mosques and attended the opening of a new Holocaust museum in Amsterdam alongside Israel's President Isaac Herzog on Sunday. The King said the inauguration of the National Holocaust Museum was of too "great significance and national importance" for him to not attend. The museum will also be the first in the country to explore how the involvement of Dutch officials under Nazi-installed laws led to 3/4 of Dutch Jews being murdered by the Nazis - the largest proportion of any European country. A group of anti-Israel protesters demonstrated outside the museum on the day of its opening.