Angela Merkel

She also stressed the importance of preventing Iran from creating a nuclear bomb, and that the regime’s presence in Syria must move “toward zero,” despite it being “a difficult project.”

“At this critical junction in history, we clearly see the need to bring together the most proficient researchers in the university to address the key threats to democracy in the information age: the loss of privacy, the blurring borderlines between computers and human beings, and the fight against half-truths, fallacies, conspiracy theories and straight-up fake news,” said university president Ron Robin.

The chancellor and 13 German government ministers will hold an intergovernmental meeting (G2G) with their Israeli counterparts. This will be the seventh such meeting in the last decade.

Meetings have been pushed off for almost a year-and-a-half due to German disapproval of Israeli building in Judea and Samaria, and rejection of Israeli policy towards the Palestinian Authority.

As part of the Oct. 4 awards ceremony to be held at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Angela Merkel will meet with a diverse group of graduate students from the University of Haifa, including Germans there.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is slated to accept an honorary doctorate from the University of Haifa. She is also expected to visit the Israel Museum and the Foreign Ministry exhibit on innovation featuring the work of six Israeli companies.

European Union Foreign ministers will gather in Brussels on Monday to discuss the nuclear deal in light of the U.S. decision to withdraw from it.

Both Russia and China, which have strong ties with Iran and veto power in the U.N. Security Council, are unlikely to support any additional pressure on Iran.

A blueprint for coalition negotiations between Germany’s Christian Democratic Union Party, led by Chancellor Angela Merkel, and the country’s Social Democratic Party, headed by Martin Schulz, has stoked fears in Israel.