President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal landed in Iasi, Romania on Sunday morning for a state visit. Herzog was received with an official welcome ceremony at the airport. Later today he is scheduled to attend a state ceremony marking 85 years since the Iasi pogrom, one of the worst massacres of Romanian Jews during the Holocaust. The visit follows the president's departure from Israel aboard the Wing of Zion government aircraft earlier this morning.
President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal arrived in Iasi, Romania, on Sunday morning for a state visit, landing at the city's airport where an official welcome ceremony was held. The delegation is scheduled to attend a state ceremony later today marking 85 years since the Iasi pogrom of 1941, in which tens of thousands of Romanian Jews were murdered by local authorities and mobs — one of the deadliest single events of the Holocaust in Romania.
The visit follows Herzog's departure from Israel earlier this morning aboard Wing of Zion, the government aircraft. As The Zioneer reported at 08:51 Jerusalem time, the president had departed without a disclosed purpose at the time; the program is now clear. This is the president's second noteworthy air travel incident in recent days — on Thursday evening his helicopter made a precautionary bird-strike landing at Palmachim Airbase, after which he continued safely to his destination. That flight was a separate domestic military helicopter move, not related to the Wing of Zion mission.
No additional details about the schedule or high-level meetings have been released.
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