Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with French President Emmanuel Macron in Jerusalem on Wednesday morning ahead of the Fifth World Holocaust Forum in the capital on Thursday.
Macron also met with President Reuven Rivlin and later is scheduled to meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah.
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Macron's decision to visit Ramallah was criticized by Israeli officials on Tuesday.
Speaking to the press after meeting Netanyahu and Rivlin, Macron said that France will be inflexible about Iran's nuclear ambitions and that his country is determined Tehran will never acquire nuclear weapons.
"In the current context, France is determined that Iran never acquires a nuclear weapon, but also that we avoid all military escalation in the region," he said.
