German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Sunday joined a broad coalition of participants at Berlin’s landmark Brandenburg Gate for a massive rally in support of Israel and decrying antisemitism. Organizers said some 20,000 participants were in attendance, however, police put the number closer to 10,000. The rally featured representatives from the German-Israeli Society, most major political parties, the Council of the Protestant Church of Germany, the German Catholic Bishops’ Conference, the Central Council of Jews in Germany, the Federation of German Industries, the German Trade Union Federation, as well as a speech by Israel’s ambassador to Germany, Ron Prosor. Relatives of Israelis taken hostage by the Islamist group Hamas — which controls the Gaza Strip and is labeled a terrorist organization by Israel, Germany, the European Union and the United States — were also on the list of speakers. The Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, was dedicated to the roughly 1,400 Israeli civilians killed in Hamas’ brutal October 7 attack on Israel’s border region to the Gaza Strip.
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