Kaplan was inaugurated as the first chief rabbi of Albania by the Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha and the Chief Rabbi of Israel Shlomo Amar. A Jewish Community Center which is named "Moshe Rabbenu" was also inaugurated in Tirana, in total disaccordance with the Jewish community who denies Kaplan's status of chief rabbi, partly because they were never consulted. Kaplan is an emissary or shaliach of the Chabad or Lubavitch sect of Hasidic Judaism. In the late 2010s, a Jewish history museum which is named the "Solomon Museum" was established in southern Berat and it contains exhibits about the Holocaust in Albania and the survival of Jews in the country during the war. In early July 2020, a Holocaust Memorial was unveiled in Tirana and it honors Albanians who safeguarded Jews from Nazi persecution during the Second World War. Among those who were in attendance were prime minister Edi Rama and the US and Israeli ambassadors. On 22 October 2020, the Albanian parliament adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's Working Definition of Antisemitism to support international efforts in combating antisemitism. Partnering with the Jewish Agency for Israel and the New York-based Combat Anti-Semitism Movement (CAM), Albania hosted the first meeting of The Balkans Forum Against Anti-Semitism on 28 October 2020, which was held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The participants included Prime minister Edi Rama, U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo and other high ranking officials from the local region, wider Europe and the US. Notable Jews of Albanian origin Robert Shvarc, translator Further reading See also Albania–Israel relations References External links History of Jews in Albania. Albanian Muslim Rescuers During the Holocaust: Photographs by Norman Gershman Albania’s remarkable philo-Semitism Jews in Albania, Yad Vashem website Romaniote Jews topics Middle Eastern diaspora in Albania Albania–Israel relations