JERUSALEM (CNN)  -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Israel of Germany's "Holocaust shame," and asserted its support for the Jewish state during an unprecedented speech to the Knesset on Tuesday. Germany and Israel are linked "in a very special way" by the memory of the Holocaust, in which 6 million Jews were killed under Nazi Germany and its allies in World War II, she said in the first address a German chancellor has ever made to the Knesset. "The Holocaust fills us with shame," she said. "I bow my head before the survivors and I bow my head before you in tribute to the fact that you were able to survive."
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German Chancellor has told the Knesset of Germany's "Holocaust shame"
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Angela Merkel became first German chancellor to address Israeli parliament
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She called on Iran to prove it did not want the bomb
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Merkel said she supports the two-state solution to the Mideast conflict
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