(ANSA) - ROME, DECEMBER 19 - "The trip to Israel is not calendarized but it will be one of the next trips I will make, hopefully in the first months of next year".
So Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on the sidelines of the ceremony for the Hanukkah party in Rome.
A few tears escaped the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni during the ceremony for the Jewish holiday Hanukkah, at the Jewish museum in Rome.
Immediately after the intervention of the president of the Roman Jewish community, Ruth Dureghello (who wished her "to light not only a candle tonight, but all the days of her life in a strong light within herself to face the great task before her"), Meloni was moved saying: "Thanks for the invitation and for these words.. we females sometimes do this thing a bit like this.. of being too sensitive,
At the end of her speech, the premier embraced Dureghello, hiding her face somewhat in the arms of the president of the community.
She then shook hands with Sami Modiano, a survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, and together with the two she attended the candlestick lighting ceremony.
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