Israeli news agencies report that the country’s government cabinet today voted to formally recognize the 1915 Armenian Genocide.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar, on his microblog X on June 25, announced that he would introduce a resolution during an upcoming cabinet meeting calling on Israel to recognize the Armenian Genocide.

The resolution now heads to the Knesset plenum for a parliamentary vote.

The explanatory note attached to the resolution states that the Armenian Genocide began in April 1915 with the arrest, deportation, and murder of hundreds of Armenian intellectuals, leaders, and educated figures in Constantinople. “After that, the Ottoman government began the systematic extermination of the Armenian population,” the document emphasizes.

The document also notes that thirty-two countries have recognized the Armenian Genocide in various ways, and Israel “must do so in light of its moral and historical duty.”