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Brazil President Visits Western Wall in Jerusalem with Netanyahu


(AFP) Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Monday alongside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The site, one of the holiest in Judaism, is located in a part of Jerusalem annexed by Israel after the 1967 Six-Day War. Such visits can be seen as granting tacit approval to Israeli sovereignty over the site. An Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman said it was the first time a sitting head of state had visited there with an Israeli prime minister. President Trump became the first sitting American president to visit the Western Wall, in May 2017, but he was not accompanied by any Israeli leaders.
2019-04-02 00:00:00
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