BERLIN—German Chancellor Angela Merkel is set to pay a two-day official visit in Israel next week for the first time since 2014.
She will arrive in Israel on October 3 and 4 and meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who visited Berlin last June.
On October, Merkel will receive an honorary doctorate from Haifa University for demonstrating “exemplary standards of excellence, wisdom and humanity throughout her life.’’
Merkel is a supporter of strong ties between Germany and the State of Israel. She has been invited to Israel several times and, in 2008, convened a special meeting of the German government in Israel in honor of Israel’s 60th Independence Day.
Her visit next week will also be part of a broader government-to-government summit that will bring several German cabinet ministers to Israel for meetings with their counterparts.
Merkel has also showed a strong stance against ant-Semitism which is on the rise in the country.