Israel frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners as King Hussein of Jordan visits Israel
On January 10th, 1996 Jordan’s King Hussein made his long overdue first public visit to Israel, more than a year after the peace agreement was signed with Israel and just a few short months after the Rabin assassination, which he claimed to have been deeply affected by.
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On January 10th, 1996 Jordan’s King Hussein made his long overdue first public visit to Israel, more than a year after the peace agreement was signed with Israel and just a few short months after the Rabin assassination, which he claimed to have been deeply affected by.
The king, who is a licensed pilot, co-piloted his own Jordanian army helicopter to the Sde Dov airfield just 20 minutes north of central Tel Aviv, where he was greeted by Prime Minister Shimon Peres.
The two leaders' first stop on their way to the official public visit was to the hospital in which Yitzhak Rabin had passed and where two Jordanian soldiers were being treated by Israel’s leading medical experts.
King Hussein was then joined by Rabin’s widow, Leah, in dedicating a trauma centre at the hospital in the name of the late prime minister.