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On her last visit to Israel during her tenure, Merkel visited the Holocaust Remembrance Center for the sixth time. The visit was also attended by the center’s chairman Danny Dayan and the center’s council chairman, Rabbi Israel Meir Lau. At the end of the tour, she signed the official guest book of Yad Vashem. Prime Minister: “The place of the Jewish people is on their land, here in the Land of Israel”

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited the Yad Vashem Center today (Sunday) to commemorate the Holocaust. During Merkel’s sixth visit to the site, Yad Vashem Chairman Danny Dayan and Yad Vashem Council Chairman Rabbi Israel Meir Lau were also present. Bennett said after the visit: “In my opinion, the most important thing in the lessons is the most obvious and simple of all: the place of the Jewish people is on its land, here in the Land of Israel.”

The Prime Minister added: “The Holocaust is not the reason for the existence of the State of Israel. The connection of the Jewish people to their land did not begin in Auschwitz. But Auschwitz, our brothers and sisters who were lost there, strengthens our determination to never be defenseless, far from their homeland.”

The government of Israel Israel has the most women ministers in history. They, along with Israel’s PM Naftali Bennett, welcomed Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel.

תודה לך אנגלה מרקל גברתי הקנצלרית על היותך חברת אמת של מדינת ישראל, על מחויבותך לעם בישראל ועל כך שאת מנהיגה בעלת שיעור קומה עולמי המהווה מודל השראה לנשים בכל העולם. pic.twitter.com/2fNQNe8ejB

— איילת שקד Ayelet Shaked (@Ayelet__Shaked) October 10, 2021

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Thank you, Chancellor Angela Merkel, for being a true friend of the State of Israel, for your commitment to the people of Israel, and for being a world-class leader who is an inspirational model for women around the world.