Israel will for the first time host an official visit by a member of the British royal family when Prince William travels there this summer, it wason Thursday.
The visit is coming Seventy years after David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the independence of the state of Israel and an end to the British Mandate in Palestine.
Prince William, who is second in line to the British throne, will visit Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian territories in the occupied West Bank.
No specific date was announced. His father and grandfather have traveled to Israel, but not as part of an official royal visit.
The prince will visit at the request of the government of his grandmother Queen Elizabeth II, Kensington Palace, his royal residence,.
The lack of a formal visit has long been a sore point for many Israelis.
Some had interpreted it as a snub , aof Israel or, perhaps, the result of in Arab countries.
For now the assumption is that the prince will not travel with his family. He and his wife, Kate, are expecting their third child in April.
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Source: NAN