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=== Denmark ===
{{Main|Denmark–Israel relations}}

The relations between Denmark and Israel have been friendly and warm. Denmark voted for the [[partition of Palestine]] in 1947 and supports Israel in the [[United Nations]]. Denmark was one of few countries in Europe to [[Rescue of the Danish Jews|save most of its Jewish population]] during the WWII. In [[Jerusalem]], there is a monument to the rescue of [[Danish Jews]], a school is named in Denmark's honor, and the King [[Christian X]] hospital in [[Eitanim]] is named after Denmark's king during World War II. Denmark has an embassy in Israel, and Israel has an embassy in Copenhagen.

The political lives of the two states have been somewhat intertwined: The former Israeli minister of social and diaspora affairs [[Michael Melchior]] was born in Denmark and is the son of former chief rabbi in Copenhagen, [[Bent Melchior]], the nephew of former Danish minister of traffic and minister of tourism and communication [[Arne Melchior]], and the grandson of the acting rabbi for the Jewish refugees from Denmark in Sweden 1943–45, [[Marcus Melchior]]; the executive director of the [[Peres Center for Peace]] 2001–2011, [[Ron Pundak]] who played an important role in starting the [[Oslo peace process]] and was part of the core group behind the [[Geneva Initiative]], is the son of the influential Danish journalist [[Herbert Pundik]]; and the prominent Israeli politician [[Yohanan Plesner]], former chairman of the [[Plesner Committee]], is the son of Danish architect [[Ulrik Plesner]].