Germany’s Biggest Paper: Congrats to Amb. Grenell Receiving ZOA’s Shillman Award for Outstanding Diplomacy
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November 7, 2018

Enclosed is Translation of Germany’s largest newspaper BILD article on Ambassador Grenell as “Winner of the Day” for receiving the Zionist Organization of America’s (ZOA) Dr. Bob Shillman Award for Outstanding Diplomacy at ZOA’s Gala Nov. 4 at the Marriott Marquis in NYC. Other honorees included NSC Advisor Amb. John Bolton, who received the Dr. Miri and Sheldon Adelson Award for Defense of Israel, Fox TV and CBS radio talk show host and NY Times best selling author Mark Levin. Speakers included Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (by video), Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz, Israel’s Amb. to UN Danny Danon.  ZOA president Morton Klein also spoke and received the Theodore Herzl Award for 25 years of service to ZOA. Kimberley Guilfoyle was the Emcee. 

Translation: “A Huge Honor for U.S. Ambassador to Berlin, Richard Grenell (52). He was presented with the “Shillman Award for Outstanding Diplomacy” by the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA). Grenell: ‘With incidents of antisemitism on the rise in Germany, Europe and America, we must be vigilant in combating anti-Semitism in all its forms.’ BILD says: Congratulations!”

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