Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar was scheduled to depart Monday night for a diplomatic visit to the three Baltic states—Lithuania on Tuesday, Latvia on Wednesday and Estonia on Thursday.
The foreign minister will meet with his counterparts and other senior officials, including the Estonian prime minister and defense minister, as well as the Latvian president.
Sa’ar is also set to visit the Holocaust memorial near the railway station at Ponary (now Paneriai), where approximately 100,000 people—most of them Jews—were murdered by German forces and their Lithuanian collaborators, the Ypatingasis būrys killing squads, between July 1941 and August 1944.
In addition, Sa’ar will hold meetings with members of the Jewish communities in all three countries.
