MANILA, Philippines — The House of Representatives passed on third reading a bill setting August 9 as the Philippine-Israel Friendship Day, but two lawmakers disagreed with the chamber's move as it supposedly gives credence to the atrocities suffered by Palestinians. At the House session on Monday, 256 lawmakers voted in favor of House Bill (HB) No. 7763, while two voted in the negative and four abstained. According to HB No. 7763, August 9 was selected for the Philippine-Israel Friendship Day to commemorate the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two nations, which started when then president Manuel Quezon allowed Jews escaping the Nazi Germany's Holocaust during the Second World War into the country.

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