ISRAEL: U.S. POP SINGER WHITNEY HOUSTON MEETS ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON/ BLACK HEBREWS CONTINUE VISIT.

Record ID: 400475

  • Title: ISRAEL: U.S. POP SINGER WHITNEY HOUSTON MEETS ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON/ BLACK HEBREWS CONTINUE VISIT.
  • Date: 29th May 2003
  • Summary: (U6) JERUSALEM (MAY 27, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV: AMERICAN POP SINGER WHITNEY HOUSTON AND ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON ENTERING PRESS CONFERENCE 0.17 2. MV: SECURITY GUARD STANDING AT PRESS CONFERENCE 0.21 3. MV/MCU: SHARON, HOUSTON AND HUSBAND BOBBY BROWN AT MEETING (2 SHOTS) 0.38 4. MCU: (SOUNDBITE) (English) ISRA
  • Embargoed: 13th June 2003 13:00
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  • Location: JERUSALEM/ EILAT, ISRAEL
  • City:
  • Country: Israel
  • Reuters ID: LVAAVO44M5E0724YRQ3W8REBCBHI
  • Story Text: American pop singer Whitney Houston has met Israeli
    Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at his Jerusalem residence
    following a tour in the southern Israeli seaside city of Eilat
    with a group of Black Hebrews, a spiritual group who call each
    other 'saints'.



    Whitney Houston on Tuesday (May 27) visited Israeli
    Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who took time out from
    preparations for a summit with his Palestinian counterpart and
    U.S. President George W. Bush to meet the pop diva.

    "It's home. It's a friendship I've never had with any
    other country," Houston, dressed in a long red robe with white
    embroidery, told Sharon.

    Houston was in Israel with her husband, rhythm and blues
    singer Bobby Brown, to visit "friends and family" among the
    Black Hebrews, an African-American community that moved to
    Israel in 1969 and settled in the southern town of Dimona.

    "Welcome to the united and undivided capital of the state
    of Israel forever," said Sharon during the meeting at his
    office in Jerusalem. "You are among friends."
    Israel captured east Jerusalem from Jordan in the 1967
    Middle East war and later annexed it as part of its capital.

    The annexation was never recognized internationally.

    Palestinians seek the city's eastern sector as the capital
    of their future state and the issue is expected to be the
    stickiest in any peace negotiations.

    Houston, who arrived in Israel on Sunday (May 25),
    appeared to be above politics.

    On Monday (May 26) she told reporters in Israel's southern
    resort of Eilat that she was on "spiritual retreat" during
    which she would visit family and friends in Dimona.


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