- [Interpreter] Poland,not for the first time,

approved an antisemitic and immoral law.

- [Julie] And in retaliation,

Israel recalled its top diplomat

with no plans to send itsnew ambassador to Warsaw.

Foreign Minister Lapid alsorecommends the Polish ambassador

to Israel stay on vacation.

- [Interpreter] He shoulduse the time available

to him to explain to the Poles

what the Holocaust meansto the citizens of Israel,

and how much we will not tolerate contempt

for the memory of those who perished,

and the memory of the Holocaust.

- [Julie] Lapid says Israel and the US

are coordinating a response.

- [Interpreter] Poland hasbecome an anti-democratic,

non-liberal country that doesnot honor the greatest tragedy

in human history.

Never be silent.

Israel and the Jewish people

will certainly not remain silent.

- [Julie] US Secretaryof State, Antony Blinken,

urged the Polish presidentto veto the legislation,

saying it would severelyrestrict the process

for Holocaust survivorsand their families,

as well as other Jewish andnon-Jewish property owners,

to obtain restitution forproperty wrongfully confiscated

during Poland's communist era."

Poland's Foreign Ministry calledthe move seriously damaging

to the relationship,

and said it would takeappropriate political

and diplomatic actions.

Lapid shot back that Israel

had no intention of turning a blind eye

to what he called the shameful conduct

of the anti-democratic Polish government.

Lapid's father and Blinken's step-father

were both Holocaust survivors.

- The message attendsto Holocaust survivors,

to descendants of Holocaust survivors

and to non-Jews, and becausethere are many Christian Poles

who also had property,

it says the past doesn't matter.

It's not important.

And we're not going tolook and see what happened.

We're not going to address it.

We're just gonna saythere are no more claims.

Everything is settled,everything is closed.

- [Julie] Gideon Taylor

of the World JewishRestitution Organization

says you can't build a houseon that kind of foundation.

- Poland never passed any legislation

that enabled people to filea claim and to come forwards.

Unlike other former communist countries,

Poland has said we'renot gonna deal with this.

- [Julie] Before World War II,

Poland was home to nearlythree and a half million Jews,

Europe's largest Jewishcommunity at the time.

90% of them died in the Holocaust

and their properties were confiscated.

While the incoming communist government

kept those properties following the war,

the fall of communismin 1989 opened the door

for the properties to be reclaimed.

Taylor says he believes Poland is afraid

to look at its history.

- Poland has said wedon't wanna be responsible

for what the Nazis did.

And they're right.

Poland suffered horribly under the Nazis

but this is not about that.

This is about what the Polishcommunist government did

after the war

when it took the propertyof Holocaust survivors,

and others, and non-Jewish Poles,

and confiscated it.

- [Julie] Taylor says Israel and the US

won't let the issue drop.

Poland, he says, needsto make some compensation

for the loss.

Julie Stahl, CBN News, Jerusalem.