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The 84-year-old Rabbi Israel Meir Lau is to remain chairman of the advisory board of the Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem in Jerusalem for another four years. The Israeli government approved a request to this effect by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday, according to his office. Lau is Israel’s former chief rabbi. Born in Poland in 1937, he lost both parents during the Holocaust and is himself a survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Yad Vashem is the largest Holocaust memorial in the world and serves as a museum, memorial and research site. It documents the names of many of the 6 m…