Prince William meets Eurovision winner Netta Barzilai during Israel visit

Published Jun 27, 2018

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Tel Aviv  - Britain's Prince William sipped an old-fashioned

soda along Tel Aviv's most historic promenade with Israel's

Eurovision winner, Netta Barzilai, on Wednesday.

The prince is on the second day of his tour of Israel and the

Palestinian Territories, the first official visit of a member of

Britian's royal family to the area, which Britain ruled as the

colonial power from 1920 to 1948.

William, dressed in a blazer and slacks, sipped a Gazoz, an Israeli

soft drink made from flavoured syrup and fizzy water, while chatting

to Israeli recording artist Netta Barzilai.

The pair stood on Rothschild Boulevard, a tree-lined street named

after the 19th-century British Jewish banker who assisted the Jewish

community in British mandate Palestine.

William is due to kick off the Palestinian leg of his tour on

Wednesday, travelling to Ramallah, the de facto Palestinian capital

in the West Bank. There he will meet President Mahmoud Abbas and

Palestinian refugee committees.

dpa

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