Zionist recognition rejected

"Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial, has posthumously honored an Egyptian doctor who risked his life to save Jews in Berlin during World War II — the first Arab ever to receive such recognition. But a surviving family member spurned the award, a news agency reported Sunday, citing the enmity between Egypt and Israel. “If any other country offered to honor Helmy, we would have been happy with it,” [Mohamed Helmy's wife, Mervat] Hassan told the news agency." (thanks Basim)