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As part of the worldwide attention
Israel is receiving for its 60th anniversary celebrations, a
wide-range of dignitaries, politicians, authors, actors and VIPs
visited Yad Vashem during the second week of May. Among them were the
Presidents of Rwanda, Albania, Slovenia, Mongolia and Burkina Faso,
and the President of UN General Assembly, each of whom came to Yad
Vashem with their respective delegations. US Speaker of the House
Nancy Pelosi, author and Nobel Prize Laureate Nadine Gordimer, actor
John Voight, and businesswoman and model Ivanka Trump were among the
other special visitors recently at Yad Vashem.
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President of the Republic of Albania
Professor Doctor Bamir Topi rekindles the flame in a memorial
ceremony in the Hall of Remembrance, after an extensive tour of
Yad Vashem. |
President of the Republic of Slovenia,
Dr. Danilo Turk, guided by Director of the Yad Vashem Libraries
Dr. Robert Rozett, visits the Holocaust History Musuem |
President of Burkina Faso Blaise
Compaoré, guided by Yad Vashem Guide Nannie Beekman, tours the
Holocaust History Museum |
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President of UN General Assembly
Srgjan Kerim of Macedonia views the Hall of Names during his visit
to Yad Vashem. |
The Speaker of the United States House
of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and Speaker of the Knesset Dalia
Itzik lay a wreath in a memorial service in the Hall of
Remembrance during a visit to Yad Vashem. |
President of Rwanda Paul Kagame during
a tour of the Holocaust History Museum at Yad Vashem. |
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Oscar Award-winning actor Jon Voight,
here to salute Israel for its 60th birthday, welcomed Chabad's
Children of Chernobyl's (CCOC) 80th rescue mission airlifting 36
children from irradiated regions in Belarus and Ukraine to Israel.
Pictured here on a guided visit of the Holocaust History Museum at
Yad Vashem. |
Businesswoman Ivanka Trump signs the
Visitors’ Book upon exiting the Children’s Memorial at Yad Vashem. |
Chairman of Yad Vashem Avner Shalev
greets Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature Nadine Gordimer during
her recent visit to Yad Vashem. |
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