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He will be the most senior British royal to pay
an official visit to Israel and the Palestinian Territories.
Charles will attend the World Holocaust Forum at the Holocaust
remembrance centre Yad Vashem on Jan. 24 to mark the 75th
anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau
concentration camp in southern Poland, the largest Nazi death
camp in World War Two.
He will also meet British Holocaust survivors who will be
travelling to Israel for the event.
"The prince is honoured to be among the small number of
international leaders who have been invited to address the
event," Scott Furssedonn-Wood, the prince's Deputy Private
Secretary, told reporters.
During his two-day visit, Charles will meet Israeli President
Reuven Rivlin in Jerusalem and Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbas in Bethlehem.
Full details of the trip were still being finalised but he hoped
to visit his grandmother's grave in Jerusalem and might visit
other holy sites, his office said.
The heir-to-the-throne has visited Jerusalem twice before in a
private capacity for the funerals of Israeli President Shimon
Peres and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
In 2018, Charles's son Prince William became the first British
royal to visit Israel and the Palestinian Territories in an
official capacity in 2018.
En route to the Middle East, Charles will stop off at the World
Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to launch the Sustainable
Markets Council, designed to bring together the private, public
and philanthropic sectors to find ways to decarbonise the global
economy.
"Given that we understand the problem, the prince believes we
must now focus on the solutions," said Furssedonn-Wood.
The 71-year-old royal, who has campaigned on environmental
issues for decades, "feels strongly that we are at a crucial
point in human history when there may still be time to prevent
irreversible damage to our planet", he added.
(Reporting by Michael Holden; Editing by Giles Elgood)
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