Binational Chamber of Commerce Bulgaria Israel - Mr. Avinoam Katrieli, the President of the BCCBI, visited the event of Bulgarian Jewish community in which were conferred awards on former president Plevneliev and late Metropolitan Neofit

Mr. Avinoam Katrieli, the President of the BCCBI, visited the event of Bulgarian Jewish community in which were conferred awards on former president Plevneliev and late Metropolitan Neofit

Mr. Avinoam Katrieli, the President of the BCCBI, visited the event of Bulgarian Jewish community in which were conferred awards on former president Plevneliev and late Metropolitan Neofit

Mr. Avinoam Katrieli, the President of the BCCBI, visited a moving ceremony at the Sofia Central Synagogue, in which the Shalom Organization of the Jews in Bulgaria and the Central Israelite Spiritual Council conferred formal honors on former president Rossen Plevneliev and posthumously on Vidin Metropolitan Neofit for his role in the Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s resistance to the deportation of Bulgarian Jews to the Holocaust. The award to late Metropolitan of Vidin Neofit was accepted on behalf of that diocese by its vicar, Bishop Polycarp. The event marked the start of a campaign by Shalom and the Central Israelite Spiritual Council entitled “The Unforgotten – 75 Faces of Salvation”. Mr. Katrieli thanked with kind gratitude to the Bulgarian clergymen and to the dignified people of Bulgaria for the prevention of the deportation of the Bulgarian Jews in 1943.