On Wednesday, Israeli President Isaac Herzog will pay his first official visit to Warsaw. Together with the Polish and German presidents, he will commemorate Jews killed in the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on the revolt's 80th anniversary.
Polish and Israeli authorities are hoping the visit would be a new beginning in bilateral relations, which for the last few years were at their lowest level. In March, however, Poland and Israel signed an agreement on youth exchange.
What will be the result of Herzog’s visit? And how important is the legacy of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising to Jews today?
"Polish-Israeli relations are really special and we should not take them for granted," Livne told Polish Radio’s Wojciech Cegielski.
He added: "We should talk more about the things that unite us. It is certainly a challenge today when we see what is happening in the world, both in the Middle East and in Europe and other places. We need to cooperate, I believe, very closely on these issues and many more."
"We need to build close relations between our youth," Livne also told Cegielski.
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