Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said Israel had “great sympathy” for Kurdish aspirations and that the world should concern itself with their wellbeing. Netanyahu was speaking at a memorial ceremony for far- right Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Zeevi, assassinated by Palestinians in Jerusalem in 2001. Zeevi, he said, went on a secret mission Iraq’s auton-omous Kurdish region in 1960s and supervised setting up of an Israeli army field hospital there.