Prince William Will Go to Israel, in First Official Visit by a British Royal<br />Kensington Palace said on Twitter that Prince William would visit "Israel, Jordan and the Occupied Palestinian Territories." But Israel’s Haaretz newspaper noted<br />that the Hebrew news release rendered the West Bank part of the visit as the Palestinian Authority, a term more palatable to many Israelis.<br />By ISABEL KERSHNERMARCH 1, 2018<br />JERUSALEM — Seventy years after David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the independence of the state of Israel<br />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.<br />Prince William, who is second in line to the British throne, will visit Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian territories in the occupied West Bank.<br />Netanyahu said that This is a historic visit, the first of its kind, and he will be welcomed here with great affection,<br />In a Facebook post, the British Embassy wrote in both English and Hebrew that the prince would visit the Occupied Palestinian Territories.<br />The queen’s eldest son, Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales<br />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.
