Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday visited the villa on the Wannsee lake on the outskirts of Berlin where senior Nazi officials adopted the "Final Solution" - plans to exterminate all Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe in January 1942. Netanyahu, who described the visit as "emotional," became the first Israeli prime minister to visit the site's museum since it opened in 1992, on the 50th anniversary of the "Final Solution" conference.
He told reporters that as Israel's prime minister, he had three words to say: "The People of Israel live!" words that he had written in the site's guest book. Earlier in the day, he made references to the Holocaust in warning about Iran's nuclear development program and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's threat to wipe Israel off the map.