Israeli parliament committee will discuss Armenian Genocide issue.

Israeli Knesset’s (parliament) Education, Culture, and Sports Committee will examine Monday the matter of declaring an Armenian Genocide remembrance day in the country.   

The Committee, led by Alex Miller, will take up the matter during public hearings, MIGnews.com writes.

According to preliminary assessments, majority of the Committee members are against recognition of the Genocide.

Israeli ruling coalition’s main blocs, namely, Likud and Israel is Our Home parties, have disagreements over this matter. The great majority of the ruling party is in favor of the Genocide’s recognition; whereas Israel is Our Home members are against, noting that even this matter’s discussion at Knesset harms Israel’s strategic partnership with Azerbaijan.

To note, the French National Assembly passed, on December 22, the bill that criminalizes the denial of genocides. But the bill still needs to be approved by the French Senate. The bill sets a one-year prison sentence plus a 45-thousand-Euro fine for anyone who denies genocides. And in reprisal to the passage of this bill, Turkey recalled its ambassador to France, and Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced Turkey’s eight-point sanctions against France.