Prince William Will Go to Israel, in First Official Visit by a British Royal

Prince William Will Go to Israel, in First Official Visit by a British Royal
Kensington Palace said on Twitter that Prince William would visit "Israel, Jordan and the Occupied Palestinian Territories." But Israel’s Haaretz newspaper noted
that the Hebrew news release rendered the West Bank part of the visit as the Palestinian Authority, a term more palatable to many Israelis.
By ISABEL KERSHNERMARCH 1, 2018
JERUSALEM — Seventy years after David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the independence of the state of Israel
and an end to the British Mandate in Palestine, Israel will for the first time host an official visit by a member of the British royal family when Prince William travels there this summer, it was announced on Thursday.
Prince William, who is second in line to the British throne, will visit Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian territories in the occupied West Bank.
Netanyahu said that This is a historic visit, the first of its kind, and he will be welcomed here with great affection,
In a Facebook post, the British Embassy wrote in both English and Hebrew that the prince would visit the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
The queen’s eldest son, Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales
and the heir to the throne, attended the funerals in Jerusalem of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995 and the former prime minister and president Shimon Peres in 2016.