Prince Charles today met Israeli President Isaac Herzog at his family residence, Highgrove House, to discuss Israel’s role fighting climate change.

President Herzog also announced an Israeli nursing scholarship is to be named after the Prince of Wales’ grandmother, Princess Alice, who protected a Jewish family during the Nazi occupation of Greece.

The late Duke of Edinburgh's mother will be recognised with the compassion and perseverance scholarship at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

“What Princess Alice did, she saved the whole family,” Evy Cohen, whose grandmother, aunt and uncle were sheltered by the Princess, told the Guardian in 2019.

“Clearly I wouldn’t be alive, I wouldn’t be here, I wouldn’t be born if it hadn’t been for her,” she added.

President Herzog thanked Charles for his personal leadership on the environment and said that he had made the issue a key plank of his presidency.

He said Israel was committed to reaching net-zero emissions by 2050, and had much to contribute to the global effort against climate change through its development of pioneering technology. 

Prince Charles has long been a keen environmentalist. Highgrove was designed to put that philosophy into practice, with an entirely organic garden and solar panels fitted to the Georgian house. 

President Herzog also stressed his affinity with Britain, speaking of his father, a Belfast-born British Army major who participated in the Normandy landings and liberation of Bergen-Belsen, and his ancestors who served as rabbis across Britain.

Writing for the JC ahead of his visit, he said “the gentle rhythms of this green and pleasant land are with me every day.”