Israeli President Yitzhak Herzog is in Berlin on Monday and meets his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier. The opportunity is to accept the common diplomatic relationship 60 years ago.
“For 60 years, the German-Israeli relationships for reconciliation and the special responsibility of our country with Israel. This includes that we solve against anti-Semitism,” wrote German federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) on Monday on the platform X. The existence and safety of Israel was German, “said and converted.
On May 12, 1965, German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard and Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eskhol came in to accept diplomatic relationships in areas, science and culture. This was preceded by a gradual approach to both states, the relationship of which was extremely taxed by the Holocaust. About six million Jews were murdered during the Nazi era.
Steinmeier travels to Israel
Steinmeier and Duke will commemorate the Jews on Monday at Memorial Gleis 17 of the Berlin-Grunewald train station, which were deported from there to the labor and concentration camps. A meeting with German and Israeli youth is also planned. Steinmeier will fly to Israel on Tuesday with Duke.
The Israeli government is currently concerned about increasing anti -semitism in Germany. After the Hamas attack this increased again on October 7, 2023. Conversely, the German government is critical of Israel’s warfare in the Gaza Strip with many dead citizens.
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