Source: Reuters
TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Prince William envisaged a strong future for Israel while making the first official British royal visit to the country on Tuesday and pledged to commemorate the Holocaust that contributed to its foundation.
Speaking at a reception in his honor at the residence of the British Ambassador to Israel, William said his visit earlier to Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial center in Jerusalem had been a “profoundly moving experience.”
He told dignitaries including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that as older generations were fading away, it was up to him and other younger people to carry on the commemoration of the Holocaust.
“I am well aware that the responsibility falls now to my generation to keep the memory alive of that great crime as the Holocaust generation passes on. And I commit myself to doing this.”
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