U.S. President Donald Trump arrived in Israel on Monday,
attempting to revive the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process with visits
to Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Over two days, Mr. Trump is to meet separately with both
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbas and visit holy sites. On Monday in Jerusalem, he will pray at the Western
Wall and visit the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
Mr. Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, as well as Israeli
President Reuven Rivlin and members of the Israeli cabinet, were at Tel Aviv’s
Ben-Gurion airport to greet Mr. Trump and First Lady Melania in a red carpet
ceremony after a direct flight from Riyadh.
On his maiden foreign tour since taking office in January,
Mr. Trump is already showing signs of fatigue from a packed schedule.
He is on a nine-day trip through the Middle East and Europe
that ends on Saturday after visits to the Vatican, Brussels and Sicily.
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