Tentative Schedule Pope

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