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Israeli president visits Vatican

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4445632.stm

Israeli president visits Vatican

President Moshe Katsav has become the first Israeli head of state to make an official visit to the Vatican.
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Israeli commentators say the meeting has great symbolic importance, as the two sides try to improve relations that have often been fraught.

President Katsav has invited the Pope to follow in the footsteps of his predecessor John Paul II by visiting the Jewish state.

As a gift, the Pope gave the president a copy of the Vatican document of 1965 that proclaimed that the Jews were not to blame for the death of Jesus Christ.
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