Official Visits Jerusalem

President Clinton made his last stop in Israel on Friday with a visit to Yad Vashem, the somber hilltop memorial to the 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust. Accompanied by President Ezer Weizman, Clinton, looking pensive, stood inside the dimly lit Hall of Remembrance and listened to a children's choir sing the haunting "Eli, Eli" hymn, written by Hamma Senesh, an Israeli who died in 1944 after she parachuted behind Nazi lines in Hungary and was captured by the Germans.

When Irish Foreign Minister Dick Spring showed up at Orient House in East Jerusalem this week, he was greeted by angry Israelis shouting "Shame on you!" and by journalists demanding to know what he was trying to prove. Ignoring aides who urged him not to comment, the Irishman icily told reporters: "You can read into it whatever you like." The source of all this controversy wasn't the fact that Spring met with Palestinians. That was fine with the Israeli government.

When Irish Foreign Minister Dick Spring showed up at Orient House in East Jerusalem this week, he was greeted by angry Israelis shouting "Shame on you!" and by journalists demanding to know what he was trying to prove. Ignoring aides who urged him not to comment, the Irishman icily told reporters: "You can read into it whatever you like." The source of all this controversy wasn't the fact that Spring met with Palestinians. That was fine with the Israeli government.

President Clinton made his last stop in Israel on Friday with a visit to Yad Vashem, the somber hilltop memorial to the 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust. Accompanied by President Ezer Weizman, Clinton, looking pensive, stood inside the dimly lit Hall of Remembrance and listened to a children's choir sing the haunting "Eli, Eli" hymn, written by Hamma Senesh, an Israeli who died in 1944 after she parachuted behind Nazi lines in Hungary and was captured by the Germans.