Kaczynski was good friend of Israel

President Shimon Peres, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi joined other world leaders and top ranking military officers in sending condolences to the government, people and army of Poland as well as to the families of the victims of the plane crash which took the lives of the President of Poland Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria, along with the lives of senior military personnel and other dignitaries as well as relatives of Polish prisoners of war, mainly armed forces officers and members of the Polish intelligentsia, some of whom were Jews, who were killed in 1943 in the notorious massacre in the Katyn forest, 19 kilometers west of Smolensk in Russia.