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What Is the Real Reason for Merkel to Cancel Joint Summit with Israel?

Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters

German Chancellor Angela Merkel decided to cancel a joint summit with Israel's government, scheduled for May 10 in Jerusalem, HAARETZ reports.
The official reason her office gave the Prime Minister's Office for the cancelation in the planned visit by Merkel and top officials was the German elections in September.
However, German and Israeli sources say there was another reason, albeit not the main one – her dissatisfaction at the Israel's new law to expropriate private Palestinian lands, enacted in Knesset last week.

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