Report: Trump, Many World Leaders To Visit Israel To Mark 75 Years Since Auschwitz Liberation

By Staff Reporter
Posted on 07/21/19 | News Source: JPost

Jerusalem - Yad Vashem is in the process of organizing a major event in January that aspires to bring a number of world leaders, including US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron, to Jerusalem to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

The Jerusalem Post has learned that acording to the plan, the leaders would arrive in Israel on January 26, spend one night here, and take part in an event at Yad Vashem called the World Holocaust Forum the next day.

In addition to Trump and Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel will also be invited, as will the prime minister of Britain. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau might also participate.

It is not immediately clear whether Russian President Vladimir Putin will be involved. Earlier this month, Putin – during a conversation with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – invited him to take part in a ceremony in Moscow in May commemorating 75 years to the defeat of the Nazis.

If Macron does take part in the event, it would be his first visit here as French president. This would be Trump’s second visit as US president, and would come just days before the kick-off of the primary election season,  with the Iowa caucuses on February 3, and the New Hampshire primary eight days later. Read more at JPost