Rivlin gets warm welcome in Cyprus

Despite the brevity of his visit - barely a day - President Reuven Rivlin received a full ceremonial welcome at the Presidential Palace in Larnaca from President Nicos Anastasiades of Cyprus on Tuesday morning.

After the two presidents reviewed the honor guard, Rivlin laid a wreath at the statue of the late Archbishop Makarios, who was his country's first president after it gained independence from the Britain in 1960.

After lunch Rivlin flew to Nicosia, where some 52,000 Jews - nearly all of them Holocaust survivors - had been interned by the British who would not allow the illegal immigrants to disembark from the ships which brought them from displaced persons camps in Europe to the Promised Land.

During the period of detention, 2,200 Jewish babies were born in Cyprus, many of them in the British Military Hospital, which is now an army ...