Tristan Azbej, State Secretary for aiding persecuted Christians, said Hungarian governance is rooted in Judeo-Christian values.
During the conference Anti-Semitism: Appearance and Reality, held at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Yacov-David Hadas Handelsman, Israel’s ambassador to Budapest, noted Hungary has the largest Jewish community in central Europe, “and its members can walk down the street safely, while its institutions are working well”.
András Heisler, the president of the Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities (Mazsihisz), noted the trauma of the Holocaust lingering in second-generation Jewish survivors. Slomó Köves, the leader of the Unified Hungarian Jewish Congregation (EMIH), said anti-Semitism was falling off in Hungary, though, he added, it was still significant a problem which warranted long-term solutions.