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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Queen Elizabeth II was 'good for the Jews' even though she never visited Israel: tributes from Canada and Britain on her death
Description: As the official mourning period continues for Queen Elizabeth II – who died on Sept. 8 at the age of 96 – the Jewish community is, mostly, remembering her long reign with fondness and admiration. She supported Holocaust survivors and welcomed Israeli leaders, and connected with the Canadian Jewish community, too: in 1973, she laid a cornerstone for Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto; and in 2010, during her last royal tour of Canada, she met the late Rabbi Reuven Bulka and Rabbi Chaim Mendelsohn in Ottawa.
But despite her wide travels, the Queen never visited Israel, an unofficial boycott that still hurts.
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