Tentative schedule pope's visit

Monday, 11 May 2009: Arrival and Official Welcome

- 11:00Arrival at Ben-Gurion International Airport (from Jordan). Official welcoming ceremony

headed by President Shimon Peres

12:05Arrival at Mount Scopus helipad, Jerusalem. Welcoming ceremony by Jerusalem Mayor, Nir
Barkat .

- 16:05Visit to the President’s Residence

Celebratory reception ceremony, working meeting with President Shimon Peres, joint planting of a
tree in the Presidential Garden, personal addresses, artistic program .

- 17:30Visit to Yad Vashem, Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Memorial. Memorial ceremony at the
Remembrance Hall; Wreath laying; Address by the Pope.

Tuesday, 12 May 2009: Jerusalem and Mass at Kidron Valley

- 9:15Visit the Temple Mount and meet with the Grand Mufti

- 10:00Visit the Western Wall accompanied by the Chief Rabbis of Israel

- 10:35Visit the Chief Rabbis at the Heichal Shlomo Synagogue

- 12:00Visit to the Church of Dormition, site of the Last Supper. Live broadcast .

- 12:30Visit and prayer at Latin Patriarch

- 16:15Visit Gethsemane Church and a solemn afternoon Mass at the Garden of Gethsemane

Wednesday, 13 May 2009: Visit Bethlehem

Celebration of Mass at Manger Square

Thursday, 14 May 2009: Visit Nazareth

- 9:15Arrival in Nazareth, welcoming ceremony and the ceremony of bread and salt. Reception by
Mayor of Nazareth .

- 10:00Mass at Mount of the Precipice

- 15:50Meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Church of the Annunciation. Live
broadcast .

- 16:30Meeting with the Faith Heads in Israel, Church of the Annunciation

17:30Prayer at the Church of the Annunciation

Friday, 15 May 2009: Departure

- 9:15Meeting at the Greek-Orthodox Patriarch

- 10:00Visit to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Live broadcast .

- 13:30Official farewell and ceremony at Ben-Gurion International Airport, including speeches by

President Shimon Peres and Pope Benedict XVI