Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein welcoming Jewish parliamentarians from around the world

The International Council of Jewish Parliamentarians convened in Jerusalem, under the auspices of the World Jewish Congress, for three days of intensive discussions and meetings with high-level Israeli officials. Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein welcomed the parliamentarians, as well as distinguished ambassadors to the State of Israel. Relating to the recent tensions and terrorist attacks in Europe, Edelstein said: “What I wish to all of the democracies who are facing the same problem [Israel has faced] is to find the balance between running a democracy that is as perfect as one thinks, without letting terrorists use the rules of the democratic game to challenge that democracy.”