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(IsraelNN.com) Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and President Shimon Peres will welcome American President George W. Bush at Ben Gurion airport at 11 a.m. Wednesday. Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik (Kadima) also will attend the welcoming ceremonies. He will fly by helicopter to Jerusalem, and will meet with President Peres at his Jerusalem residence in the afternoon. Later in the afternoon, he will visit Prime Minister Olmert.
 
The president and Prime Minister, along with their wives, will attend the Presidential Facing Tomorrow Conference at night. They will visit Masada Thursday morning, and President Bush will address the Knesset in the early afternoon. The president and his wife will visit the Israel Museum at night before dining with his hosts.

They will leave Israel Friday morning after a visit to the Bible Lands Museum and a roundtable discussion with young Israelis, under the auspices of the American embassy, which is located in Tel Aviv. During the visit, Aliza Olmert and Laura Bush will visit a Jewish-Arab school, an infant care clinic and will tour the Western Wall tunnels.