 State of America, the Honourable State of Israel, of the State of Israel, Lincoln, Secretary of State of the United States of America, the Honourable Benny Gantz, Minister of Defense of the State of Israel, Rabbi Yisra, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Council, Mr. Danny Dayan, Chairman of Yad Vashem, Holocaust survivors, ladies and gentlemen. We have gathered here in the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem, on the Mount of Remembrance, Jerusalem, to commemorate the six million Jews murdered by the German Nazis and their collaborators. The Ankor Choir, directed by Ms. Daphna Ben-Yokhanan, will open the ceremony with a song, Walk to Caesarea, written by the young poet and parachutist, Hanna Senesh, who was killed behind enemy lines in Hungary in 1944. It's President Biden to rekindle the eternal flame in the Hall of Remembrance, to rekindle the eternal light in this Hall of Remembrance before the sacred remains of our martyrs. We unite with the blessed memory of six million of our people who died a martyr's death at the hands of the German Nazis and their collaborators. Of the Jewish communities destroyed in a wicked attempt to eradicate the name and culture of Israel. We remember with veneration the fortitude of the fighters who kindled the sublime flame of rebellion among the besieged masses of the ghettos. The heroic and persistent struggle of the masses of the House of Israel on the threshold of destruction for their human dignity and their Jewish heritage. We remember the righteous among the nations who risked their lives to save Jews from persecution and death. I am honored to invite President Biden to lay the wreath on the slab under which the ashes of Holocaust victims from the extermination camps are buried. We'll now recite El Malei Rahamim, a prayer for the souls of the martyrs. Ladies and gentlemen, the ceremony is concluded. President Biden will now greet Holocaust survivors Dr. Giselle Gita Sikovitz and Mrs. Rina Quint. Please remain in your places. Thank you for those two Holocaust survivors. One of them, Rina Quint, spoke to her, who earlier at the Holocaust Memorial Museum. Let's take a listen to what she had to say ahead of what we can evidently see is an extremely heartfelt encounter. I can't help thinking that as a child of 10, a little girl who didn't speak English, who didn't have a mother, who didn't have a father, who didn't have a home, came to the United States very frightened and very much alone, and I became an American citizen. I was adopted by a wonderful American Jewish family. I married a wonderful, wonderful American man and had children there, but I never thought that from a child who had no education and no possibilities to all of a sudden be meeting the President of the United States. It's really quite an honor. Yes, and now we're back to those live images of the American President at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum, taking his time to have a genuine conversation with two Holocaust survivors of American descent who came there. And we can see we, you know, sometimes all cynicism should be put aside. You can see what a genuine, honest interaction it is between them, how those lovely Holocaust survivors are really taking the opportunity to speak to the American President. And this is, again, the opening note of the Biden visit here in Israel. Once he concludes this conversation and this visit at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum, he will be heading to the King David Hotel, where he will basically finish his agenda for the day, but we can safely assume it will include a whole lot of preparations ahead of an extremely busy day tomorrow. And so to get a better understanding of what is it exactly that is expected for the American President tomorrow, joining me now in studio, Dr. Fadi Ismail, former senior, Stafford U.S. Congress and Research Fellow at the International Institute for Counterterrorism, and Mr. Udo Weintraub, lecturer at the School of Media Studies at the College of Management. Thank you, gentlemen, very much for being with us. Again, we can still see those live images of Joe Biden, the American President at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum. As we've mentioned numerous times in the broadcast, it's not his first visit to there. As an American President, and his record when it comes to Israel is to an extent, it cannot be disputed. And even while we're mentioning that, he's not necessarily being perceived as such here in Israel when it comes to public sentiment. What would you attribute that to, Mr. Weintraub? Well, I think that many Israelis got used to Trump's closeness to Israel, and it's not the same style. Also President Biden, even though he truly is a friend of Israel, and even the Holocaust he learned about it personally when he was a youngster in his family, was a Zionist. He didn't hesitate from time to time to speak his piece, and there were some altercations in some previous visits, though he was voicing his own sentiments. But if you look at his record, he has known Israel since actually it's established at the beginning. And as a junior senator, he came to Israel and continued on. This is his first visit as a president, and I believe that the record speaks for itself. Yes. Indeed, and he arrives here at a very, let's call it shaky timing to an extent when we're talking about the Israeli state of affairs. It's no secret perhaps that the Biden administration was fond of the experiment, let's put it that way, of the so-called unity government, the Naftali Bennett, Yair Lapid led government. Now we are amid election campaigning season. The American president expected to meet, of course, both Prime Minister Yair Lapid and opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu tomorrow. What do you think we should be expecting during those high-profile meetings, Dr. Ismail? The meetings tomorrow. Yes. Some of it will be probably nice cities, diplomatic nice, some of it. It depends. Well, that's a part that we'll see on camera. If there will be a part outside the cameras away from them, then I will assume that they will speak about the issues of the day, the way governments speak to each other. It is true that the president, Biden, knows Israel very well, he's been here, I don't even know how many times, they say 10 days that we know of, and he met all Israeli leaders since Gundam-Irisen, so he knows the Israeli political system really well. The guys who are going to talk tomorrow with all due respect, both Prime Ministers, the former one and the current one, to him are basically youngsters, young men. He can tell them things that the Israeli government has done when they were still in high school, literally in high school. So not even in the case of Lapid, not even in the school. I just saw one of the Israeli reporters tweeting that the reception ceremony at the International Ben-Gurion Airport, your Lapid, the Prime Minister, told Biden, not sure if you remember, but eight years ago I met you at your office, you were Vice President, and you told me that if I had your hair, I would have been the American President. If I had your height, I would have been the Israeli Premier and look at them now. So without a hair and without the mileage, they still got you to this point. But putting aside politics, every single character we've mentioned, they have their fair share of politics to deal with. If we're talking policy, considering this, again, sensitive political timing here in Israel, the honest truth that Israel is somewhat of a stopover for Biden on its way to Saudi Arabia, is anyone really expecting major breakthroughs during this visit, or is it so-called maintenance work? I think to a large extent it's maintenance work, but there have been reports that there's going to be a declaration, a Jerusalem statement, or a Jerusalem declaration tomorrow, in which President Biden will recognize Israel's right to dissuade, and also America's right to dissuade Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, and also recognize Israel's right to dissuasion and to self-defense from a variety of threats or a combination of threats. So this is sort of a veiled language, and parts of the agreement will not be made public to note that Israel can undertake certain operations. We can only imagine what they are to dissuade Iran and other enemies. So this is perhaps the major diplomatic effort. But his main thrust, as far as I see it, will be the second leg of his voyage, which is the GCC plus the Gulf Cooperate.