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Over three years, Likud leaders have repeatedly visited Europe's populist-right capital, a place free of anti-Israel protests and full of warm ties to the powerful Chabad religious movement, making Budapest a must-see ahead of the Likud primary

BUDAPEST – Last April, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Budapest for five days with his wife, Sara. Like any self-respecting Israeli tourist, he began with a stop at the Shoes on the Danube Bank memorial, which commemorates the city's Jews murdered in the Holocaust.