Wrapping up his three-day trip to the Middle East, President Obama headed to Israel Friday where he visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial along with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Next stop: Jordan.
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President Barack Obama and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu place their arms around each other during a visit to Mount Herzl, the burial ground of modern Zionism's founder, Theodor Herzl.
Obama walks out of the Hall of Remembrance at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, Friday.
President Obama takes a stroll with Rabbi Israel Meir Lau in the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem.
Obama's official itinerary included meetings with the Palestinian and Israeli leaders as well as a visit to the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
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President Obama pauses for a moment as he lays a wreath at the Hall of Remembrance during his visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem.
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Obama places a stone from the grounds of the Martin Luther King Memorial in Washington, DC on the grave of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
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Obama shares a laugh with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during an official state dinner hosted by Israel's President Shimon Peres.
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President Obama toasts with Israeli President Shimon Peres after he was presented with the Presidential Medal of Distinction, Israel's highest civilian honor.
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President Obama shields his eyes as he looks up at a person who shouted out during his speech to the Israeli people at the Jerusalem International Convention Center.
President Barack Obama waves as he leaves the stage after speaking at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem.
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Obama and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas shake hands at a news conference at the Muqata on Thursday.
Obama and Abbas pose for a photo with Palestinian children during a welcoming ceremony Thursday in Ramallah.
The U.S. Marine One helicopter, carrying Obama, lands Thursday at the Muqata, the Palestinian Authority headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
An Israeli policewoman looks at the damage after a rocket fired by Palestinian militants in Gaza landed in the southern Israeli town of Sderot on Thursday.
Obama and Netanyahu take a bite of matzo as they tour the technology expo.
Netanyahu and Obama visit the shrine of the book Thursday in Jerusalem.
Obama and Netanyahu speak with Professor Amir Geva (right), head of the biomedical signal processing and pattern recognition lab at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, as they tour a technology expo at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem on Thursday.
Obama and Netanyahu observe a technology display during the tour of the technology expo.
Obama and Netanyahu speak together at a press conference following a bilateral meeting at the prime minister’s residence in Jerusalem.
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Netanyahu's wife, Sara, brushes his jacket off at their residence in Tel Aviv as the Israeli Prime Minister waits to meet Obama.
The president waves goodbye as he leaves the Jerusalem home of Peres, his Israeli counterpart.
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Palestinians hoist a large Palestinian flag near Israel's largest Jewish settlement, Maale Adumim, on the outskirts of Jerusalem, where Obama is visiting.
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Obama takes a walk through Peres’s garden in Jerusalem.
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Obama’s Israel trip this week is the first of his presidency.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Peres listen to Obama’s speech at the welcoming ceremony.
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President Obama is greeted by Israeli President Shimon Peres during an official welcoming ceremony on his arrival Wednesday at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv.
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