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Israeli President at the White House on June 28

2021-06-24T06:57:38.045Z


Israeli President Reuven Rivlin will be received in Washington on June 28 by his American counterpart Joe Biden, the spokeswoman for the ...


Israeli President Reuven Rivlin will be received in Washington on June 28 by his American counterpart Joe Biden, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki announced on Saturday.

Reuven Rivlin, whose term ends on July 5, will be the first senior Israeli official to meet with the US president since taking office.

At the end of May, he had formally accepted the invitation, sent by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, to tour the Middle East.

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The visit will come a month after the end of the blitz between Israel and the armed Islamist movement Hamas, in power in the Gaza Strip.

These clashes claimed the lives of 260 Palestinians, including children and adolescents, and 13 people in Israel, including a child and a teenage girl.

In early June, members of the Knesset, Israel's parliament, elected Isaac Herzog, a former Labor Party leader who will succeed Reuven Rivlin in early July, as president.

The office of president is essentially honorary in Israel.

Source: lefigaro

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