Israel’s blue and-white flag flew along Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House Monday as President Chaim Herzog arrived for the first state visit to Washington by a president of Israel.
Herzog and his wife, Ora, arrived at Andrews Air Force Base early Monday morning aboard a U.S. presidential aircraft and were met by Secretary of State George Shultz. The two had a half-hour meeting later at Herzog’s hotel.
The official visit begins Tuesday, when Herzog meets with President Reagan at the White House in the morning and addresses a joint session of Congress in the afternoon.
Shultz will host a luncheon for Herzog at the State Department and Reagan will host a dinner Tuesday night at the White House.
Herzog is also scheduled to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington Cemetery on Thursday and address a luncheon of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations on Wednesday, after visiting a Jewish day school in the Maryland suburbs of Washington.
He also has meetings scheduled on Wednesday and Thursday with Vice President George Bush, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland.
Herzog leaves Thursday for New York, where he and his wife will attend a Metropolitan Opera Guild benefit performance at Lincoln Center that evening.
On Friday, he meets with United Nations Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar and New York City Mayor Edward Koch. He will meet with Cardinal John O’Connor, archbishop of New York, at his hotel on Saturday.
That night, he will receive the 1987 Covenant of Peace Award of the Synagogue Council of America at a private dinner reception in his honor.
Before leaving for Israel Sunday night, Herzog will fly up to Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., in the afternoon where he will receive a honorary doctorate degree.
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