Obama wraps up Holy Land visit at Bethlehem church after Holocaust tribute
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U.S.
President Barack Obama and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas walk in
the Church of the Nativity during their visit to the West Bank city of
Bethlehem on March 22, 2013.
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Obama meets Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III (3rd left) during a tour of the Church of the Nativity.
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Obama walks out of the Hall of Remembrance at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem.
President Barack Obama made a pilgrimage on Friday to Bethlehem, the traditional birthplace of Jesus.
At the Church of the Nativity, Obama ducked to enter through its small Door of Humility. Manger Square, the plaza in front of the church, was almost deserted except for security personnel.
Earlier, Obama visited Israel's most powerful national symbols, paying homage at the Holocaust memorial and the graves of Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism, and Yitzhak Rabin, the prime minister assassinated in 1995 by an extremist Jew over peace moves with the Palestinians.
Wearing a Jewish skullcap, Obama rekindled an eternal flame at the Yad Vashem memorial next to a stone slab above ashes recovered from Nazi extermination camps after World War Two.
"We have a choice to acquiesce to evil or make real our solemn vow - never again," Obama said.
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Obama
tours the Hall of Names at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in
Jerusalem, alongside Avner Shalev (right), Chairman of the Yad Vashem
Directorate, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Obama pays his respects in the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem after Marines laid a wreath on his behalf.
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Obama listens to Netanyahu during their visit to the Children's Memorial at Yad Vashem.
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Obama walks with Rabbi Israel Meir Lau in the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem.
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