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Rachida Dati signs the guestbook after a visit at the Yad Vashem Memorial Museum in Jerusalem.
Photo: AFP Copyright 2008
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JERUSALEM (EJP)---As part of a 3-day official visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories, French Justice Minister Rachida Dati went to the Western Wall and toured the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem on Sunday.
At Yad Vashem, Dati laid a wreath at the Hall of Remembrance, visited the Hall of Names and the Children's Memorial before signing the guestbook.
Born to a Morrocan father and an Algerian mother, Dati is the first woman from non-European immigrant background to occupy a key ministerial post in the French government led by François Fillon.
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In her speech at the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center, French Justice Minister Rachida Dati said that France would never allow negotiations on Israel’s security and existence. "When it comes to terrorists’ activity that threatens Israel’s security, our stand is very clear : one does not talk to terrorists and to the ones that call for the destruction of Israel, one fights them," she said.
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he minister was due to meet with Israeli President Shimon Peres and her counterpart Daniel Friedmann, and later give a lecture at the Center for European Studies of the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya.
On Saturday, she visited the Palestinian territories and signed in Ramallah a cooperation agreement which includes French aid to help training young Palestinian lawyers.
In an interview with newspaper Al Ayam she stressed France’s desire "to help the Palestinian people establish the state of law."