{"id":648467,"date":"2013-03-22T19:12:40","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T23:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=0d9f832a056e5bbf470416c3bbf57e8e"},"modified":"2013-03-22T19:12:40","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T23:12:40","slug":"on-third-day-of-middle-east-trip-president-obama-visits-jewish-and-christian-landmarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/648467","title":{"rendered":"On Third Day of Middle East Trip, President Obama Visits Jewish and Christian Landmarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed\">\n<div class=\"clearfix\" id=\"small-node-embed-image-detail\">\n  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/embedded_img_small\/image\/image_file\/_ckb7285_2.jpg?itok=-Is1jw8d\" alt=\"President Obama places a wreath in the Hall of Remembrance at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, March 22, 2013\" title=\"President Obama places a wreath in the Hall of Remembrance at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, March 22, 2013\" width=\"430\" height=\"286\" class=\"imagecache imagecache-embedded_img_small\" \/>  <\/p>\n<p>\n    President Barack Obama pauses after adjusting a wreath placed in the Hall of Remembrance during his visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, March 22, 2013. Standing behind the President, from left, are: Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau; Israeli President Shimon Peres; Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu; and Avner Shalev, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate.<\/p>\n<p>    (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>President Obama began the third day of his historic visit to the Middle East with a visit to Mount Herzl, Israel&#39;s national cemetery, where he honored the significant contributions of two Jewish heroes, Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism and former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The President laid a stone from the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in Washington on Mr. Rabin&rsquo;s grave, highlighting the slain leader&rsquo;s work to bring peace to the region.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Next up was a tour of Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Complex, where President Obama honored the memory of Holocaust victims by laying a wreath and rekindling the eternal flame in the Hall of Remembrance. He also joined Israeli President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Netanyahu on a tour that included the Hall of Names, a circular chamber that houses the original testimony documenting every Holocaust victim ever identified, and the art museum where the President heard the story of Charlotte Salomon, a Holocaust victim who was murdered in 1944 in Auschwitz, but whose memory is preserved in the autobiographical artwork she painted while in hiding from the Nazis. &nbsp;The President ended the poignant visit with a walk through the Children&rsquo;s Memorial, which memorializes the&nbsp;1.5 million Jewish children who perished during the Holocaust with candles reflected in a series of mirrors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/03\/22\/third-day-middle-east-trip-president-obama-visits-jewish-and-christian-landmarks\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama pauses after adjusting a wreath placed in the Hall of Remembrance during his visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, March 22, 2013. Standing behind the President, from left, are: Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau; Israeli President Shimon Peres; Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu; and Avner Shalev, Chairman of the Yad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7323,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7323"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}