Prince William on first British royal state visit to Israe

Coming from two days in Jordan on Monday evening, Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, will meet Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah. His visit to “Israeli and the Palestinian Occupied Territories,” will also take him to the World Holocaust Remembrance Center to lay a wreath for the six million victims. He is expected to visit Jerusalem’s Old City and the grave of Princess Alice of Greece, his great-grandmother and mother of Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh. Prince Phillip visited the grave on the Mount of Olives in 1994 for a ceremony honoring his mother for saving Greek Jews during the Second World War. This is the first time in 70 years that a senior member of the British royal family is paying a state visit to Israel.