Belgian Prime Minister Sophie Wilmes sent her ‘’best wishes to all of you celebrating Rosh Hashanah this Friday.’’
In a message published on her Facebook page in French and Flemish she wrote: ‘’I hope this New Year brings you joy, happiness and comfort despite the ordeal. May the party be beautiful but above all safe from a health perspective.’’
Wilmès’s mother is an Ashkenazi Jew who lost several relatives in the Holocaust.
In an interview last month she said that the fact that her mother is Jewish ‘’is an important element’’ in her life ‘’but it is not the sole.’’
‘’It is part of important elements that are building myself. One has not only one identity,’’ she added.
Sophie Wilmès is Belgium’s first female Prime Minister in its 189-year history.