ARMINFO News Agency, Armenia Friday President of Israel confessed that Tel Aviv does not recognize the Armenian Genocide for political reasons Yerevan October 27 Tatevik Shahunyan. The world-famous French chansonnier of Armenian origin Charles Aznavour at the residence of Israeli President Reuven Rivlin in Jerusalem raised the issue of recognizing the Armenian Genocide in Tel-Aviv in Ottoman Turkey. During the ceremony of awarding medals of the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg for "heroic actions during the Holocaust" to Aznavour and his sister Aide, the world famous chanson asked the Israeli leader when Israel recognizes the Armenian Genocide. "I will not ask you a secret question, and I do not expect an answer. However, it is important to raise this issue. Why do not you recognize the Armenian Genocide, while they themselves suffered from the fascist regime? "Aznavour said. In response, the President of Israel confessed: "Unfortunately, the Israeli government, for political reasons, could not recognize the tragic events in the Ottoman Empire of 1915 as genocide, but I myself raised the issue in the Knesset and the UN."