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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 17-05-10
CONTENTS
[01] Mitsotakis says Tsipras trying to divert attention from new measures
with proposals on education
[02] Two Greek families to receive Yad Vashem medals for rescuing Jews
during Holocaust
[01] Mitsotakis says Tsipras trying to divert attention from new measures
with proposals on education
New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Prime Minister Alexis
Tsipras is announcing changes in the educational system to divert
people's attention from the new measures the government will bring to
parliament after its agreement with Greece's lenders.
"Just like he said once he will abolish the [unified property tax]
ENFIA and tear up the memoranda now he's implying that he will abolish
the existing university entrance exams. With which system will he
replace them? In what university halls will students enter, with what
books and what professors?" he said, adding the prime minister behaves
"irresponsibly and frivolously".
[02] Two Greek families to receive Yad Vashem medals for rescuing Jews
during Holocaust
Two families of Greeks have been selected to receive medals for their
selfless rescue of Jews during the German occupation by the Yad Vashem,
the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre in Israel, in a ceremony to be
held on May 15.
Ioannis and Katina Perraki and Dimitra Dimopoulou are to receive medals
for rescuing Esther Malach Battinou and Moses Battinos, children
of Solomon and Rebecca Battinos from Athens, during the WWII German
occupation.
The medals and the title "Righteous Among the Nations" will be presented
by Israel's Ambassador in Athens Irit Ben-Abba and will be accepted by
relatives of the two Greek families.
More than 300 Greeks have received the title of "Righteous Among the
Nations" up to this time, including the late Archbishop of Athens and
All Greece Damaskinos, the former mayor of Zakynthos Loukas Karrer and
national resistance fighter Lela Karagianni, among others.
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