It was a protocol novelty - and at the same time continued a tradition in the fateful relationship: Bundestag President Bärbel Bas was the first German politician to speak in the Knesset on the occasion of Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Unfortunately, the admonition “Never again”, which is so important but has also become routine, is particularly topical.
Because of an increasing hatred of Jews, which was also being shouted out on German streets and squares.
And because of a war that Russia, once mercilessly at war with by Germany, is currently waging against Ukraine with the will to annihilate.
Putin wants to "denazify" the democratic country ruled by a Jewish president.
Germany is accused of not wanting to properly fight a new form of fascism.
Zelenskyj, on the other hand, was criticized in Israel precisely because he drew comparisons with the Holocaust before the Knesset.
In any case, evocations of having learned extensively from history are subjected to a severe test.
Thus Germany assures that she is standing side by side with the Ukraine, yes, as it were, that she herself is being attacked;
under no circumstances does it want to be a party to the war – out of an even greater interest.
This gives a foreshadowing of what even the German promise "The security of Israel is for us reasons of state" can mean in an emergency.