Tbilisi. President of Georgia Giorgi Margvelashvili
congratulated Jews, residing in the country, with Hanukkah holiday and wished
them peace, happiness and prosperity.
"This evening, our Jewish compatriots
are beginning the celebration of Hanukkah, the holiday of light, which
commemorates the re-dedication and purification of the Temple in Jerusalem.
To our brothers and sisters of the Jewish
faith, who have shared our life and land for millennia in peace and fraternity
- I congratulate you on this holiday of renewal. Georgia respects your
traditions, patriotism, and immeasurable contributions to our arts and
sciences, business and political life", is said in Margvelashvili's
congratulation, disseminated on Wednesday, November 27.
"Please accept my warmest wishes for
a happy Hanukkah and peace, happiness, health and prosperity in the New
Year", Margvelashvili says in the letter.
Hanukkah also known as the Festival of
Lights and Feast of Dedication, is an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating
the rededication of the Holy Temple (the Second Temple) in Jerusalem at the
time of the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire of the 2nd century
BCE.