Germany's outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel will tour Israel's national Holocaust memorial and hold talks with PM Naftali Bennett in her final official visit after 16 years in power
Germany was a leading player in the 2015 international nuclear deal with Iran.
Israel was formed in the wake of the Holocaust in 1948 and the two countries only established diplomatic ties in 1965. But over the decades those ties have warmed. Merkel and the former Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had a sometimes cool relationship due to poor personal chemistry and differences over the Palestinian issue.
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