(27 Oct 2006) SHOTLIST
1. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert arriving at Yad Vashem, greeting authorities
2. Wide of people gathered under a tent
3. SOUNDBITE: ( English) Ehud Olmert, Israeli Prime Minister:
"How could the world hear the incitements of the Nazi regime in Germany and somehow keep on living as if there was no threat. On these very days we hear similar voices. For the first time a leader of a very big and important nation openly and publicly declares that the aim of his nation is to wipe off the map the existence of the state of Israel the existence of a country that is a member of the United Nations and these nation continues to be a legitimate member of the United Nations and leaders of many countries of the world receive the leader that speaks publicly and openly about the liquidation of the state of Israel and they hardly do anything"
4. Olmert leaving podium
STORYLINE
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Friday compared Iran's nuclear ambitions and threats against Israel with the policies of Nazi Germany during a ceremony at Israel's national Holocaust memorial.
Olmert's speech came amid reaction to a new report that Iran has doubled its capability to enrich uranium, a process that can produce material for nuclear power reactors or weapons.
Israel has identified Iran as the greatest threat to the Jewish state.
Israel's concerns have heightened since the election of Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who frequently calls for the destruction of Israel and has questioned whether the Nazi genocide of 6 (m) million Jews took place.
"How could the world hear the incitements of the Nazi regime in Germany and somehow keep on living as if there was no threat," he said in his speech at the Yad Vashem memorial.
He asked how several countries could "receive the leader that speaks publicly and openly about the liquidation of the state of Israel".
Olmert was speaking at a ceremony in honour of American casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, who had pledged 25 (m) million US dollars to Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, the largest gift ever given to the museum by a private donor.
Yad Vashem officials said the money would be used to strengthen outreach programmes in Holocaust education, documentation and research.
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