(Times of Israel) Arik Lederman, 65, who was arrested for shouting and spitting on Ambassador Marek Magierowski's car outside the Polish embassy in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, apologized Wednesday over the incident. Lederman told the court: "I want to express my apology for the event that happened last night. My family suffered the hardships of the Holocaust in Poland and I came to the embassy on the issue of restitution. During that I was subjected to derogatory treatment by one of the embassy employees who called me a 'Zhid' in Polish." He said he then left the embassy and was walking on the road because the sidewalks were in bad shape when "a vehicle came from behind me and honked at me loudly, frightening me. I expressed my anger in a way that I regret." He said he did not know that the man in the car was the Polish ambassador.
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