President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos met with his Israeli counterpart Euven Rivlin during his official visit to Israel, Wednesday at the Presidential Hall in Jerusalem. The refugee crisis was at center of their talks, with the Greek President stating that Europe was obliged to deal with the problem in a humanitarian manner, adding that it ‘must never revert back to becoming a “dark continent, combating all types of xenophobia, including anti-Semitism ‘”. Pavlopoulos underlined that the Middle East was facing challenges from instability fueled by terrorism, war and violent extremism. He visited the Holocaust Museum where he laid a wreath in memory of the dead and planted an olive tree. The Greek President’s schedule includes meetings with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday afternoon, the Patriarch of Jerusalem Theofilos III earlier the same day, the Greek Club of the Jerusalem Community and the head of Greek Jewish Holocaust survivors. He is expected to be officially declared an honourary professor of Law at the University of Jerusalem at 3 in the afternoon, where he will deliver a speech entitled ‘European legal order in the labyrinth of the economic crisis’. Pavlopoulos will also meet with the Speaker of the Israeli Parliament (Knesset), Yuli Yoel Edelstein later Tuesday.