By Tom Segev: VIEWPOINT / Germany should pay as long as even one survivor lives
Talkback
Title:Either collectively or individually
Name:Axel
City: State: Germany
You can pay compensation either collectively or individually. Not both.

Israel decided in the fifties to be compensated collectively for the holocaust. They used the money to build a modern, western-style country which offered a safe place to live for every Jew, holocaust survivors included.

With accepting collective compensation Israel should assume responsibility to care for its old and needy citizens (again: holocaust survivors or not).

Anything else is begging.