Jerusalem: Israeli President warmly welcomed his German colleagues on Thursday, praised him as allies in fighting antisemitism.
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Naphtali Bennett and visit Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial.
He is expected to reaffirm German strong support for Israel.
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said that Germany has become “our strong partners in war without compromise against antisemitism” and has been established with Israel to “the power of terror trying to remove us from the map.” Nazi Germany and collaborators killed 6 million European Jews in the Holocaust.
The german postwar leaders have repeatedly apologized for the atrocities of the Nazi and the state have paid hundreds of millions of dollars in reparations to Jewish victims.
Relations between Germany and Israel were difficult in the first few decades after the war, but the two countries have developed close ties in recent years.
Germany launched a new initiative with the United States last week to stem the increase in antisemitism and alarming holocaust throughout the world.
The US-German Holocaust dialogue seeks to reverse the trend, which gets the attraction during the coronavirus pandemic amid a surge in political populism throughout Europe and the US.
Dialogue creates ways to develop educational and messaging tools to teach young people and other people about Nazi crimes and their collaborators.
Israel welcomed German leaders as allies against antisemitism
