Polish Law on Property Stolen by Nazis Angers Israel

Poland's president Andrzej Duda has approved a law that will make it harder for Jewish people to recover property lost during and after World War Two, reports BBC.

Israel has recalled its diplomatic envoy to Warsaw over the changes, branding the law "anti-Semitic".

The legislation relates to claims on property stolen by Nazi Germany, then seized by Poland's communist regime.

The law sets a 30-year limit on challenges to such confiscations.

As most happened soon after the war, many outstanding claims will now be blocked.

The Polish government says the change will end a period of legal chaos, but Israel condemned it forcibly.

"Poland today approved - not for the first time - an immoral, anti-Semitic law," Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said in a statement.

Lapid also said he was recommending Poland's ambassador to Israel remain on his summer holiday in Poland.

"He should use the time available to him to explain to the Poles what the Holocaust means to the citizens of Israel and how much we will not tolerate contempt for the memory of the victims and the memory of the Holocaust," he tweeted.