The Israeli Knesset will hold a special debate on April 24 timed to the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey in early 20th century.
The debate has been initiated by Meretz. MK Zahava Gal-On (Meretz) said that it is Israel's moral duty to remember the Genocide of the Armenian people. She referred to the reconciliation talks with Turkey as "an important and strategic process that I wholeheartedly support, but it needn't influence recognition of the massacre of the Armenian people. It's not that we have to either recognize the genocide or have relations with Turkey; we can do both. The link between the two harms Israel and its foreign relations."
Israel still has not official recognize the Armenian Genocide despite numerous discussions on the issue at the Knesset.