(NECN: Jerusalem, Israel) - President Bush is in the Middle East to celebrate Israel's 60th birthday. During a conference in Jerusalem, celebrating the Jewish state's birthday, a video was played before a large audience to mark the unique friendship between the United States and Israel.
The conference, convened by Israeli President Shimon Peres, included former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, writer and Holocaust survivor Eli Wiesel and other Jewish Nobel laureates.