Speaking moments after he landed in Israel on Air Force One, Biden spoke about his plan to go to the “hallowed ground” of the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem later in the day.
“I will once more return to the hallowed ground of Yad Vashem to honor the 6 million Jewish lives that were stolen in a genocide and continue — which we must do every, every day — continue to bear witness, to keep alive the truth and honor of the Holocaust,” the blunder-prone president said, before correcting himself to say “horror of the Holocaust.”
The President added, “[and] honor those we lost so that we never, ever forget that lesson and to continue our shared, unending work to fight the poison of anti-Semitism wherever it raises its ugly head,” the President said.
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Biden — whose travel to Israel is his first as President — laid a wreath at Yad Vashem to commemorate the millions murdered in the Holocaust, before meeting with two women who survived the Nazi death camps.
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The President, wearing a yarmulke, got down on one knee to directly speak with the women, Rena Quint and Giselle Cycowicz.
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Joined by Prime Minister Yair Lapid and President Isaac Herzog at the memorial, Biden signed the visitors’ book.
“It is a great honor to be back — back to my emotional home,” Biden wrote, the Times of Israel reported.
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“We must never, ever forget — because hatred is never defeated — it only hides. We must teach every succeeding generation that it can happen again unless we remember. That is what I teach my children and grandchildren. Never forget.”
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President Biden greeted Israeli leaders with a fist bump rather than the traditional handshake when he came in Tel Aviv Wednesday in what the White House called a precaution responding to surging COVID-19 cases in the region — only for Biden to undercut his own aides by reverting to shaking hands later in the day.
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Biden delivered fist bumps to Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Yair Lapid during an arrival ceremony at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, only to grip and-grab with former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu moments later.
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In addition, Biden, Lapid and Herzog stood shoulder-to-shoulder during the ceremony and chatted to each other without wearing masks.
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Just one hour later, the president again threw caution to the wind and was seen shaking hands with Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz while attending a briefing on the Jewish state’s Iron Dome missile defense system. Later in the day, Biden shook hands with Lapid during a ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem. The president also clasped hands with two Holocaust survivors and even leaned in close to speak with them, going further against COVID precautions.
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