President Doris Bures of the National Council of Austria, the lower house of Austria's parliament, is scheduled to visit the Knesset on Monday as a guest of Knesset Speaker Yuli-Yoel Edelstein. Bures will hold a work meeting with Edelstein and MK Amir Peretz (Zionist Camp), chairman of the Israel-Austria Parliamentary Friendship Group.
These days Israel and Austria are marking 60 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between them. In late September 2014, Edelstein and Bures took part in a ceremony in Vienna commemorating the 65,000 Austrian Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust. They laid a wreath at the foot of the Holocaust memorial in Vienna`s Jewish Quarter. Bures will also visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial institution in Jerusalem on Monday. She will tour the Holocaust History Museum, participate in a memorial ceremony in the Hall of Remembrance and visit the Children’s Memorial.