Israeli President Reuven Rivlin has been received with military honours in Berlin. He was welcomed by his German counterpart Joachim Gauck at the capital’s Schloss Bellevue presidential palace.
İsrail Cumhurbaşkanı Reuven Rivlin Almanya’da, Alman Dışişleri Bakanı Ursula von Der Leyen İsrail’de… pic.twitter.com/0NRU6SIe6Z— Faruk (@farukonalan) May 11, 2015
The visit celebrates 50 years of bilateral diplomatic relations between the two countries. It coincided with an announcement by the Israeli Defence Ministry that the government had bought four German-made corvette warships. The vessels will help secure Israel’s Mediterranean gas rigs, according to the Ministry. Berlin is said to have heavily subsidised the deal.
Laying a wreath at Platform 17 from where 55,000 Berlin Jews were sent to Auschwitz. We must look hatred in the eye. http://t.co/jmldI8QVP2— Reuven Rivlin (@PresidentRuvi) May 11, 2015
On the eve of the May 12 anniversary, Rivlin visited the ‘Gleis 17’ memorial at Grun