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Visits of U.S. Presidents to Yad Vashem

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President Richard Nixon during a ceremony in the Hall of Remembrance, June 1974
President Richard Nixon during a ceremony in the Hall of Remembrance, June 1974

President Richard Nixon during a ceremony in the Hall of Remembrance, June 1974
President Jimmy Carter during a ceremony in the Hall of Remembrance, March 1979
President Jimmy Carter during a ceremony in the Hall of Remembrance, March 1979

President Jimmy Carter during a ceremony in the Hall of Remembrance, March 1979
President Bill Clinton during a ceremony in the Hall of Remembrance, October 1994
President Bill Clinton during a ceremony in the Hall of Remembrance, October 1994

President Bill Clinton during a ceremony in the Hall of Remembrance, October 1994
From left to right: President George W. Bush accompanied by Israeli President Shimon Peres, Avner Shalev, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate in the Holocaust History Museum, January 2008
From left to right: President George W. Bush accompanied by Israeli President Shimon Peres, Avner Shalev, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate in the Holocaust History Museum, January 2008

From left to right: President George W. Bush accompanied by Israeli President Shimon Peres, Avner Shalev, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate in the Holocaust History Museum, January 2008
President Barack Obama listens to an explanation in the Hall of Names by Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate Mr. Avner Shalev, March 2013
President Barack Obama listens to an explanation in the Hall of Names by Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate Mr. Avner Shalev, March 2013

LTR: Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Council, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Barack Obama, Mr. Avner Shalev, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate and President Shimon Peres

President Barack Obama listens to an explanation in the Hall of Names by Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate Mr. Avner Shalev, March 2013
US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump laying a wreath in the Hall of Remembrance. Also pictured: Cantor Shai Abramson, Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara, Avner Shalev
US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump laying a wreath in the Hall of Remembrance. Also pictured: Cantor Shai Abramson, Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara, Avner Shalev

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US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump laying a wreath in the Hall of Remembrance. Also pictured: Cantor Shai Abramson, Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara, Avner Shalev