- Title: JERUSALEM: FORMER WEST GERMAN CHANCELLOR ERHARD WITH ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER
- Date: 31st October 1967
- Summary: DR. ERHARD AND MR. ESHKOL AT PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE. DR. ERHARD AND MEMORIAL CENTRE DIRECTOR, MR. KATRIEL KATZ, AT YAD VA-SHEM. Initials AA/VS/CR/OS Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 15th November 1967 12:00
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- Location: JERUSALEM
- Country: Israel
- Reuters ID: LVA5PMQM37HCHYQP6YD1P28TG5WR
- Story Text: FORMER WEST GERMAN CHANCELLOR LUDWIG ERHARD AND HIS WIFE ARE ON AN 11 DAY VISIT TO ISRAEL. TODAY (TUESDAY) DR. ERHARD HAD TALKS WITH HIS HOST, ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER LEVI ESHKOL, BEFORE VISITING YAD VA-SHEM MEMORIAL CENTRE FOR THE VICTIMS OF NAZI PERSECUTION, BUILT ON A HILLSIDE WEST OF JERUSALEM. DR. ERHARD WAS CHANCELLOR OF WEST GERMANY, WHEN HIS COUNTRY DECIDED TO ESTABLISH NORMAL DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL DESPITE BITTER CRITICISM BY ARAB COUNTRIES.
AFTER HIS 45 MINUTE TALK WITH THE PRIME MINISTER, DR. ERHARD VISITED THE YAD VA-SHEM MEMORIAL. HE AND HIS WIFE WERE SHOWN ROUND THE PERMANENT EXHIBITION BY MR. KATRIEL KATZ, THE NEW DIRECTOR OF THE MEMORIAL CENTRE.
THE FORMER WEST GERMANY CHANCELLOR APPEARED DEEPLY MOVED BY THE EXHIBITS. AFTER ATTENDING A BRIEF SERVICE HE LAID A WREATH IN WEST GERMANY'S NATIONAL COLOURS ON THE SYMBOLIC GRAVE OF SIX MILLION JEWS.
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