 Tagen, ein wunderbaren reigen deutsch-israelischer Begegnung. Vor gerade einmal einer Woche war Präsident Herzog auf Deutschland-Besuch. Jetzt du. Diese Dichte zu dir und zu uns, die nicht fluenten German sind, wir haben die German Translation in ein bisschen. Danke für die Begegnung mit uns. Der Chancellor ist nicht vergeben, es ist ein Präsent. Wir sind sehr dankbar für diesen Präsent. Wir werden nie vergessen, dass der Kreis in der Schweiz und der Holocaust, die Millionen Mörder in der Schweiz, in der Schweiz und in Europa für uns eine Begegnung für uns zu lernen von der Vergangenheit und zu kämpfen, welches Antisemitismus. Wir sind dankbar, dass wir in Deutschland eine leichte Jewish-Kommunität haben. Es ist wichtig für mich und für das gesamte Land, um zu öffnen und zu unterstützen Jewish-Life hier. Während meiner Begegnung mit Israel im März, wir und der dann Prä-Minister Bennett, haben wir auf eine strategische Dialog zwischen uns zwei Länder gelungen. Seitdem haben wir mehr Begegnungen mit dieser strategischen Begegnung vorgenommen. Ein paar Tage ago haben unsere Top-Officials in Jerusalem für das erste Interkommunitäts-Dialog uns vorgegeben und unsere Begegnung mehr. Am Sonntag haben unsere Länder einen Begegnung, um eine Jugendgruppe in Deutschland, der jungen Israel, zu fassen, um die Begegnung zwischen uns zwei Länder zu fassen. Es ist ein Investment in die gute Begegnung zwischen Deutschland und Israel. Meine Damen und Herren, die Russische Inversionen von Ukraine ist etwas, das uns auch baut. Wir wissen, dass das eine Begegnung von internationaler Law ist. Die Erkrankung in Ukraine muss einen Ende haben. Deutschland, Europa und Israel, wir stehen auf der Seite der Ukraine in diesen schwierigen Zeiten. Die Konsequenzen der Russischen Inversionen haben auch die Prices der Energie und der Food überall geimpft. Aber wir versuchen zusammen, diese Inflationen der Krieg zu kämpfen. Meine Regierung hat auf eine Package von Hilfen geholfen, für unsere Citizens, um diese schwierigen Zeiten zu helfen. Auch in der Europäischen Union sprechen wir über die Prices, die zu niedrigen Energieprices sind. Die Russische Inversion ist in Seitenwende, auch für unsere Begegnung. Wir haben ein Budget für Investitionen für 100 Millionen Euro in die Sicherheit der Deutschland und unserer Begegnung geholfen. Wir wollen auch mit Israel zusammen mit Israel arbeiten. Zum Beispiel in den Führungs- und Aerial-Defense. Wir sprechen über Office in diesem Führungs- und Aerial-Defense. Ein weiteres wichtiges Thema in unserer Konversation war der Peace-Prozess in der Mittel-East. Unser Stand ist bekannt. Eine dünne Lösung kann nur eine zwei-state Lösung sein. Und zwei Seiten müssen sich über diese Lösung negativen. In order to prevent a renewed escalation, es ist wichtig, dass es eine ständige Prozesse gibt, in dieser natürlich schwierigen Prozesse. Und es muss eine Veränderung in den Konditionen der Palästinien sein. Es sollte nicht eine seite Begegnung sein. Es ist eine Demand für die Palästinien-Liederschaft. Es muss klar sein, dass es eine Verantwortung hat, um eine responsibale Palästin zu bauen. Und natürlich würde ich auch aus Israel nicht nur die Fakten kasseln. Jetzt ist die Nukulegierung mit Iran. Wir agree mit Israel. Iran kann keine Nukulee bekommen. Ein Funktional-International-Augument um die Iranian-Nukulee zu verbinden, ist das richtige Weg. Ich bin froh, dass Iran nicht noch eine positive Antwort auf die Ideen von der europäischen Community hat erreicht. Die bilateralen Relations in der Ökonomie zwischen Israel und Deutschland haben Potenzial. Wir arbeiten gemeinsam, um neue und renewable Energien zu entwickeln. Herr Premierminister, Dear Prime Minister, Dear Jair, it's nice that you're a guest here. I appreciate your political abilities when representing Israel. Israel is in good hands with you. After this press conference, we will also visit the House der Wannsee-Konferenz, the memorial. This place reminds us of keeping the memory for the victims of the Holocaust to preserve this memory. We will meet these victims with sorrow and we will never forget. The human, the crime committed in the Holocaust causes our special responsibility for the State of Israel. Dear Prime Minister, Dear Jair, you can rely on this. Germany stands firm on the side of the State of Israel. Israel is a close friend and partner. Thank you, my friend Chancellor Schultz, ladies and gentlemen. I am the son of Tommy Lapid, a Holocaust survivor from the Budapest ghetto. I am the grandson of Belalampel, who has murdered at Mauthausen Concentration Camp. And now I am standing here on the German soil as Prime Minister of the Jewish State. Later today, as you said, the Chancellor and I will travel to Wannsee-Haus, where the infamous Wannsee-Konferenz took place, where the final solution to the Jewish problem was planned. The result of that conference was that the death camps were built. We will meet there with Holocaust survivors and the grandchildren, who came especially from Israel. This is a moment of great victory for them. They survived, they established an independent and a strong country. They returned here with their heads held high, as free people. I imagine, sir, that this is a complicated meeting for you. I truly appreciate your moral courage and your willingness to be part of this. The deep ties between our countries, Mr Chancellor, are proof that humanity always have a choice. Evil can be replaced by friendship. Rituality can be replaced always by human kindness and the ability to cooperate. I know Chancellor, that you are deeply committed to the right choice. Just yesterday are two countries signed an important MOU on Youth Exchange, and this visit aims to conclude the final details of a strategic partnership agreement between Israel and Germany. It followed by the strategic dialogue between our teams back in Jerusalem. This partnership has economical and security benefits. It is a practical expression of Germany's commitment to Israel's security as a Jewish and a democratic state, a commitment you reaffirmed when you took office. Israel, for its part, will play a role in building Germany's new defense force, mainly in the field of air defense, as you just mentioned. Some will certainly say that the military partnership between Germany and Israel is an historical irony. I consider it illusions from the past, does not stop evil. Liberal democracies must be willing and able to defend themselves. Sometimes freedom must be defended by force. Our partnership also requires us to act together against the growing threat of Iran becoming a nuclear state. Germany is one of the E3 countries, and this is part of the responsibility it has taken upon itself. It is time to move past the failed negotiations with Iran. They cannot and will not achieve the goal we all share to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. We discussed the need for a new strategy to stop Iran's nuclear program. A nuclear Iran will destabilize the Middle East and create a nuclear arms race that will endanger the entire world. Returning to the nuclear agreement under the current conditions would be a critical mistake. Removing sanctions and pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into Iran will bring waves of terrorism, not only to the Middle East but also across Europe. There is another way, a better way forward for the Middle East. It is the path of the Abraham Accords and the Neger Forum, a path based on shared vision for the region, a vision not of war, extremism and terrorism, but of peace, tolerance and cooperation. Our hand is outstretched for peace with all our neighbors, and it always will be. Chancellor Schultz, my friend, thank you for your warm welcome here in Berlin. As we remember our past, I look forward to continue pursuing our shared vision for the future. Thank you. There is now time for three questions from each side. First of all, Jaron Abraham. Chancellor Schultz, you announced on Saturday together with Britain and France that the nuclear agreement with Iran will not be signed soon. What is your alternative? What is your plan B to this agreement? And I ask in Hebrew Prime Minister Lapid, A few moments before boarding the plane. A few moments before boarding the plane. There is a request there for the Chancellor to react to the words of, I believe, Palestinian President We told him really that it is about Iran preventing from acquiring a nuclear bombs and also from preventing it to acquire rockets to transport them. This is the aim that we all follow together. The E3, the European negotiator, they put forward ideas and there's no reason for Iran not to agree to these proposals but we also have to realize that this is not the case so we know that in the foreseeable future it will not happen although it looked like it would happen for some time. We will remain patient but we also need to say that it needs to be prevented that Iran can use atomic weapons that will be devastating for the entire region. As I said back home, I denounced what the Minister of Finance said because I always denounced any comparison between the Holocaust and anything. It is not to be compared so I don't think I was nothing but really clear about what I thought about was said and I'm always happy to see that the Minister of Finance took back what he said. Als nächstes Michael Fischer von DPA. Michael Fischer von DPA. Vielen Dank. Thank you very much. Four weeks ago, the Palestinian President Abbas was here in Berlin and here in the Chancery and he blamed Israel for a 50-times solo cause. What did you feel back then when you heard those allegations and do you think the reaction of the Chancellor was adequate? Und Bundeskanzler und welche Auswirkungen hat dieser Ich klar auf die Beziehung Deutschlands zu The sentence have on the relations of Germany to the Palestinian Authority. Are there going to be limitations of payments and can you imagine to still have a conversation with Abbas? It is a continuation of the question I just answered. What President Abbas said was disgraceful, was unrespectful and horrible, just plain horrible. As I said, the Holocaust is not to be compared by anything and this kind of vocabulary which worries me even more doesn't exist only in speeches made on German soil by President Abbas but also in the textbook in the Palestinian educational system. This kind of terrible incitement is part of what they teach their children and this needs to be addressed by the civilized world in one voice. I think the Chancellor's reaction was, I mean he was of course taken off guard by this like everybody else but I expressed to the Chancellor personally my appreciation to the way he reacted afterwards to what President Abbas was saying and we were thankful and appreciative of his very, very firm reaction. Es ist ganz klar, dass wir die palästinienische Seite auffordern. Wir nennen uns auf die palästinienische Seite an, um eine demokratische Entwicklung und eine gute Entwicklung zu eröffnen, dass eine two-state-Solution und deshalb ist es zentral, dass wir immer darauf bestehen. Diese Szenen werden nicht mehr passieren und das ist was wir demanden und wir werden weiter demanden. A question from Riel Keana from Mr. Elioma, I believe. Thank you for this press conference. Chancellor Schultz, my question, go to the energy crisis. The German citizens are gathering wood to heat the homes for the coming winter. Germany use of coal is on rise and Europeans in general are paying much more these days and will pay even more in future for energy. So my question is, would it be correct to say that the countries around countries around the world made some significant mistakes in reduction of reliance on traditional energy sources and in relying too heavily on renewable sources and what should be the lesson from this crisis to the international community. I will just remind that the crisis began again even before the Russian invasion to Ukraine. Rorschem-Emshala Lapid, if you can also speak in Hebrew, I'm happy. We see in recent days, on the security map, a flood of the Palestinian people is rising. We're seeing, we're seeing a lot of activity of the IDF in the Palestinian Authority as the government preparing for a scenario in which the Palestinian Authority collapses. A site of the conflict we now have with Russia. We are increasing the capacity of electricity that is built by renewables. We will increase the whole production of electricity from 600 terawatt hours today up to 800 in the end of this decade and 80 percent of all of this production will be from renewables, especially offshore wind, onshore wind, solar and so on. And we will continue to do so because becoming an industrial successful CO2-neutral country means in the end that we will electrify our economy and we will use hydrogen. And this is the path we are going and many other countries too. In this situation we are today, we understand exactly that it is necessary to become independent from the necessary supply with fossil resources from Russia. And we are quite successful in doing so. As you may have realized since October there is no coal import to, or from October on there will be no coal import from Russia to European countries and also not to Germany. We get our coal shipped from other countries of the globe. And we made it to become more and more independent from the influx of oil from Russia. Which is not that difficult because it's mostly shipped and we have our transport ways to do so. And we also are working hard and intensely and as I see it successfully in getting independent from the supply of a pipeline that is serving to refineries in the east of Germany, but just this. So we are on the right path. And the same is with import of gas to Germany and Europe. We realized when this conflict started or just before it, I asked my teams in December last year to prepare for the situation that we have to do something for having the chance to get gas from other resources but Russia if there is a situation that there will be no import feasible anymore. And this is what we did. We have an increase in the supply from Norway from the Netherlands. We have an increase from the LNG ports in the western states of Europe, Netherlands, Belgium and France with whom we agreed on this path shortly. And we worked hard to make this happen. And we also decided that we will have an increase that we will build import infrastructure in the north of Germany in the shores of northern Germany to get gas into Germany with ships, which is the way to do it if there is no pipeline support as we are used to. And the first of them will open in January next year, the others during the next year. So we will have a completely modernized import infrastructure that makes it easy for us to get LNG from other sources so that we are successfully prepared. And we did the same in deciding that the storage capacities should be used. We have now filled them with more than 85% of their capacity and we are going over 90%. We have decided that we will use coal plants to produce electricity to become independent again because we still have them in this year, the next year and the beginning of 24. And we decided that we will have the chance to use the southern nuclear plants even in this winter, in January, February, March, if necessary. So we are well prepared because we decided right at the beginning of this year to do the right things for being at this situation. And now we can say it looks all that we are able to face the situation in the question of supply. And now we are working intensely to make it possible, feasible for the people to survive the situation economically and the companies to survive it. We have developed three big packages of supply for the people, which is now altogether 95 billion, which will have an impact on the way the people can face the situation. And we do it also including some measures for private companies and for the business sector and we continue to work on this field. We decided to have an intervention in the market of electricity, which makes it impossible to have extra profits just because the price is made due to the market measures by electricity produced with gas. And so I think altogether is creating a situation where we were constantly preparing for a difficult situation in winter. And so we all knew that Putin might say there is no supply with gas anymore. And because we were so early starting preparing for that situation, we are now not in a comfortable situation, but in a situation where we can stay in this situation and that we will continue to work on our future. And just to come back to the first thing you said, Germany will be one of the most successful industrial nations. But 2045 we will continue to be this. But in 45 we will be a country that is completely CO2-neutral, relying on renewables and all the chances coming from that. I think the right answer for this situation is the same answer always. Israel's security does not depend on anyone else, but on Israel. Of course we're concerned by the rise in terrorism, mostly around Janine. We handle the security problems and we don't depend on anyone for our security. Chancellor Schultz, Ukraine asked for the delivery of Leopard 2-Fighting-Tanks. Germany Will you make a step towards the Western Allies and make a point for the Western Allies States to deliver tanks? And are you ready to deliver Leopard 2-Tanks to the Ukraine from Germany? Chancellor and you spoke about cooperation in the field of air defense. Could you be a little bit more specific here? Can you confirm that Germany will purchase the Arrow-3-System and can you say something about the financial dimensions of that possible deal? Thank you. Together with our Allies, we already supported Ukraine with weapons. We delivered very effective weapons that are also making the difference in the current fighting. So what we delivered with our Gepard-Tank, the Howitz 2000, the Rocket-Mass, those are the weapons which contribute to the fact that now in the fighting and the current fighting to change the results like we are seeing it currently. And like I said in many other occasions, we will continue to go on this path. We will support Ukraine as long as it is necessary. And we also offered several in several situations, for example during, as I said in a speech that I had at the university, that we will support the Ukraine also in aerial defense that is also as effective. We also decided to emphasize this support. We will also emphasize our support in aerial defense. We will advance it, and we also decided to order more of these aerial defense systems. These aerial defense systems is not something that our army has right now. We're selling it right now. And this system is also part of the cooperation with Israel, and we're offering it right now. But we're staying, we're reining with our stance that Germany has had since the beginning, and this is the stance also for the future. There's nothing that Germany will do alone. Well, as for your first question about can I elaborate more on the Arrow 3 deal, the short answer is no, I cannot. The bit longer answer is, and this also answers the question about the financial aspect of the future possible deal, is that it has to do with our total commitment to the safety of Germany, to the safety of Europe, to the ability of liberal democracies to defend themselves, and the understanding that we are part of this effort, and therefore we have to be in close contact with our European friends. And of course Germany is one of the closest friends in Europe, and we discussed this issue with the German administration on a daily basis, actually including today. I think I hope this was vague enough. Dann als nächstes Antonia Jamin für Bild. Chancellor Schollitz, I want to ask you, you apologize several times for the scandal of revolving around Abbas. You will meet five Holocaust survivors today. Can you tell us what you would do differently today if Abbas was to stand next to you today? If he would have used these words today, that he used them back then. What would your Direkt Direktion be like? Das ist eine Frage für Lapid. The Chancellor said about, talked about the two-state solution. Israel and the Palestinians, Abbas, President Abbas, said what he said in Berlin just a few weeks ago. On one hand we have Abbas, on the other hand there is Hamas, that is a terrorist organization. Do you see the Palestinians as a partner? And do you think Germany should receive Abbas again for... Thank you. You know this strict remark that I made regarding the remarks from Abbas. They're unacceptable. Every relativation of the Holocaust is a relativation that we cannot accept and we will not accept. And it's also a crime against the victims of the Holocaust that suffered so much, experienced so much suffering. The millions of murdered European Jews is an exceptional crime and it can never, it should never be, relativated. We will not accept that. And I said that and I will say that anytime. And I'm very happy that today we have the possibility to discuss with survivors because again and again it reminds us that our responsibility remains to fight against Anti-Semitism with all kinds of strengths. Not only in this country but around the world. There is a shared initiative of Germany and Israel in front of the United Nations about this topic and we cannot accept nobody and no place. We cannot accept these remarks also, not for Mr. Abbas. I will not stand on German soil and hold discussions on a Palestinian state yesterday or now. What I told German press stands for Israeli press as well. The problem is not just what Abbas said but also that the same content appears in their education system and in the Palestinian school books, textbooks. We are pushing back against this hatred and incitement. This is not just our role but this is also the truth, historical truth. Prime Minister, I would like to come back to the question of energy. Israel is supplying Europe with natural gas in the future. I would like to know if you have talked with the Chancellor about further increases of your supply. How much could you actually deliver? Herr Bundeskanzler, war das Thema, was erhoffen Sie sich von Israel? Was hat die EU von Israel mit Israel become an importance deliverer of gas for Europe? And also an additional questions. The Swiss government also announced that they want to build storage for atomic garbage right on the border. Therefore, are you in touch with the Swiss government? Well, yes, of course, the Chancellor and I have discussed energy quite a bit and the need to cooperate on energy. Israel, as you said, will probably be able to export gas to Europe hopefully next year. We're going to be part of the effort to replace ration gas in Europe. We have, I mean, it's about what we have or our capabilities right now will be about approximately 10% of what the Russians are now or last year were exporting to Europe. So it's not as solution, it's part of the solution and we are more than willing to be part of the solution to the energy crisis. And of course, the other forte Israel has have that you haven't mentioned is that we have a lot of Israeli startups that has to do with renewable energies and all sorts of substitute solutions to the energy crisis and Germany also being an innovative superpower will be, of course, a partner that we want to cooperate with on the issues. I don't have much to add. For us, it is important that the production of gas that we can use from sources that are not Russia that we increase them. This has influences on the global market also the gas that will not reach Germany. It will reach, for example, to Europe and has a consequence for the offer and also for the prices. We need to solve two problems. One problem is that we need to care for the technical infrastructure, the pipeline connections to European harbors that we need to advance. Pipelines. We also need to speak about new energy terminals on our coast in North Germany but also better networks that connect us with the import possibilities in southern Europe and also we need to think about infrastructure regarding Israel. And when all of this will happen this will contribute to us being able to offer prices and that we can face the situation in the following in the upcoming years and it also contributes to the change in the electricity sector that we will be able to face it together with all the companies in that field in Germany and in Israel and we have a great responsibility for the world together with many others together that have similar abilities because if we do not manage to become independent from fossil resources and also to preserve our wealth and to advance it we're also talking about technologies that others in the world can use because we want that wealth around the globe will grow we want also in Asia and Africa and South America we want an equal wealth that we see here today but this wish we can only realize it when we do this in a subsustainable matter and we can do that with our high technology that we are developing right now this is news that reached us like it did you so we will update you on this in the governments on the government level between the swiss and the german governments Okay, that was the press conference there by Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz and Prime