Tel Aviv - Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero opened a 24-hour visit to Israel and the West Bank Thursday. Zapatero started a packed itinerary by touring the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem.
He is scheduled to meet Israeli President Shimon Peres later in the morning, before making the short journey to the West Bank city of Ramallah for talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the afternoon. The Spanish premier is to dine in Jerusalem with his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, before departing Friday morning.
