{"id":60560,"date":"2021-04-09T08:18:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T14:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=60560"},"modified":"2021-04-09T08:18:28","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T14:18:28","slug":"prince-philip-who-opposed-nazis-and-was-first-british-royal-to-visit-israel-dies-at-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/prince-philip-who-opposed-nazis-and-was-first-british-royal-to-visit-israel-dies-at-99\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Philip, who opposed Nazis and was first British royal to visit Israel, dies at 99"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By CNAAN LIPSHIZ and RON KAMPEAS<\/p>\n<p>(JTA) \u2014 Prince Philip, perhaps the closest member of the British royal family to Jews and Jewish causes, has died at 99.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_60561\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-1257607305-1536x853-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60561\" class=\"wp-image-60561 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-1257607305-1536x853-1-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-1257607305-1536x853-1-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-1257607305-1536x853-1-1024x569.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-1257607305-1536x853-1-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-1257607305-1536x853-1.jpg 1536w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/167;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60561\" class=\"wp-image-60561 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-1257607305-1536x853-1-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-1257607305-1536x853-1-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-1257607305-1536x853-1-1024x569.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-1257607305-1536x853-1-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-1257607305-1536x853-1.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-60561\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prince Philip at a ceremony in Windsor, England, July 22, 2020. (Samir Hussein\/ Samir Hussein\/WireImage\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Buckingham Palace announced his death on Friday. Philip, who had been married to Queen Elizabeth II for 74 years, since five years before she ascended to the throne, had been in declining health for some time.<\/p>\n<p>Also known as the Duke of Edinburgh, Philip\u2019s support for Jewish and pro-Israel causes ran deep. His mother, Princess Alice of Greece, sheltered a Jewish family during the Holocaust and is recognized as one of fewer than 30,000 \u201crighteous among the nations\u201d by Yad Vashem, Israel\u2019s Holocaust museum.<\/p>\n<p>Philip\u2019s four sisters each married German nobles, at least three of whom became Nazis. But Philip, educated in Britain, joined the allied war effort. As an adult, he showed little patience for Nazi collaborators; he was instrumental in making a pariah of his wife\u2019s uncle Edward, who after abdicating the throne dallied with Nazi Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Philip over the years spoke multiple times at Jewish and pro-Israel events.<\/p>\n<p>Philip, who had a passion for environmental preservation, spoke multiple times at Jewish National Fund events and lent his royal sponsorship to other Jewish events. He came under attack in the 1960s for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jta.org\/1969\/10\/02\/archive\/prince-phillip-attacked-by-pro-arab-journal-for-planned-address-to-joint-benefit\">speaking<\/a>&nbsp;to pro-Israel groups, and, famously impervious to criticism, ignored the attacks.<\/p>\n<p>In 1994, Philip was the first British royal to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jta.org\/1994\/10\/31\/archive\/prince-philip-visits-israel-in-first-trip-by-british-royal\">visit Israel<\/a>, when he accepted Yad Vashem\u2019s recognition of his mother and visited her burial site at the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>At Yad Vashem, Philip planted a maple tree in memory of his mother, who was married to Prince Andrew of Greece and helped shelter three members of the family of a late Greek-Jewish politician in her palace in Athens. The Gestapo was suspicious of Alice, even questioning her, but the princess, who was deaf, pretended not to understand their questions. Alice later became a nun.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_60562\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/04-09-21-prince-philip.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60562\" class=\"wp-image-60562 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/04-09-21-prince-philip-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/04-09-21-prince-philip-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/04-09-21-prince-philip-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/04-09-21-prince-philip-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/04-09-21-prince-philip-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/04-09-21-prince-philip-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60562\" class=\"wp-image-60562 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/04-09-21-prince-philip-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/04-09-21-prince-philip-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/04-09-21-prince-philip-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/04-09-21-prince-philip-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/04-09-21-prince-philip-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/04-09-21-prince-philip-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-60562\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prince Philip, center, enjoys a lighthearted moment with the Commanding Officer of the 3rd Battalion of the Royal Canadian Regiment in Toronto, Canada on 27 April, 2013. (Jamie McCaffrey)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe Holocaust was the most horrific event in all Jewish history, and it will remain in the memory of all future generations,\u201d Philip said at the time. \u201cIt is, therefore, a very generous gesture that also remembered here are the many millions of non-Jews, like my mother, who shared in your pain and anguish and did what they could in small ways to alleviate the horror.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 1994 visit broke with what was then an unofficial but nonetheless binding ban on royals traveling to Israel, which had been enforced following violence by Zionist fighters against British targets in the years that predated the establishment of the State of Israel in what had been before 1948 the British Mandate over Palestine.<\/p>\n<p>For all its trappings, Philip\u2019s 1994 visit was in a personal capacity. The Royal House ended its policy on official visits to Israel in 2018, when Prince William, Prince Philip\u2019s grandson, visited Israel, the Palestinian Authority and Jordan.<\/p>\n<p>Philip\u2019s retirement from public life in 2017&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jta.org\/2017\/05\/05\/global\/jewish-leaders-pay-tribute-to-prince-phillip-on-his-retirement\">triggered<\/a>&nbsp;an outpouring of plaudits for a life well-lived from Jewish groups and leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Those groups expressed grief upon his death Friday. Philip\u2019s life \u201cwas spent in public service, from his active duty in the Navy during World War II to the tens of thousands of engagements which he carried out over six and a half decades of royal duties,\u201d the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, Marie van der Zyl, wrote in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli President Reuven Rivlin joined dozens of other heads of state who expressed their sympathies with the Royal House. Rivlin used the traditional Jewish phrase when speaking about a deceased person, ending his&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PresidentRuvi\/status\/1380489214006079490\">tweet<\/a>&nbsp;about Philip with \u201cMay his memory be a blessing.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Prince%20Philip%2C%20who%20opposed%20Nazis%20and%20was%20first%20British%20royal%20to%20visit%20Israel%2C%20dies%20at%2099\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":60561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8790,8795,8788,8469,11312],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60563,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60560\/revisions\/60563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}