Games of fate. Almost 30 years ago, the then Prime Minister Konstantinos Mitsotakis and the then President Haim Herzog inaugurated the upgraded diplomatic relations between Greece and Israel. Today, their sons, in the same positions, discussed the strategic relations between the two countries, with the current Israeli president recalling their fathers’ relations with a gift.
At the beginning of the meeting at the Presidential Palace, Isaac Herzog presented the Prime Minister with a photograph of Konstantinos Mitsotakis with Haim Herzog, former President of Israel (1983-1993) and father of the current President.
“It is a beautiful photo from your father’s visit to the residence of the President of Israel in 1992. Your father and my father are depicted, and they are both now in paradise,” said Isaac Herzog. Kyriakos Mitsotakis warmly thanked Mr. Herzog for the kind gesture.
Both referred to the decision taken in 1990, during the Prime Minister Konstantinos Mitsotakis, for the recognition of the state of Israel by Greece and how this action, which was a turning point in Greek politics, led to the rapid improvement of Greek-Israeli relations since then. .
“I remember that my father kept his commitment to the recognition of the state of Israel, if I remember correctly, 10 days after he was sworn in,” said Kyriakos Mitsotakis, with Mr. Herzog emphasizing that this move “was a very big, positive change, for the relations between the two states “.
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