U.S. first lady Laura Bush, left, meets with King Abdullah Il Ibn Hussein at the World Economic Forum on Saturday, May 21, 2005, in Southern Shuneh, Jordan.
First lady Laura Bush addresses the World Economic Forum in South Shuneh, 21 miles west of Amman, Saturday, May 21, 2005. More than 1,300 participants attended the World Economic Forum between May 20-22 to discuss social and political reforms in the Middle East, Arab-Israeli peacemaking and Iraq reconstruction.
First lady Laura Bush, right, is given a tour of Mount Nebo by the Rev. Michele Piccirillo, head of the Franciscan Archeological Society, on Saturday, May 21, 2005, in Mount Nebo, Jordan. Mount Nebo is the site where Moses surveyed the Promised Land and where he later died, according to the Bible.
First lady Laura Bush, left, and Jordanian Queen Rania al Abdullah, right, talk with students at the Swaifiyeh Secondary School for Girls on Sunday, May 22, 2005, in Amman, Jordan.
First lady Laura Bush visits the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, Sunday, May 22, 2005. Mrs. Bush arrived for a one-day visit in Israel and the West Bank town of Jericho, as part of a Mideast tour meant to promote women's rights and help defuse growing anti-American sentiment in the region.
U.S. first lady Laura Bush and Gila Katsav, the wife of Israeli president Moshe Katsav, pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City Sunday, May 22, 2005. Laura Bush arrived in Israel for a one-day visit from Jordan where she attended the World Economic Forum conference on the Middle East on Saturday.
A photograph shows the visitors book of the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum after Laura Bush signed it during her vist to Jerusalem Sunday, May 22, 2005. She wrote in the visitors' book at the site, "Each life is precious. Each memory calls us to action to honor those lost. We committ (sic) ourselves to reject hatred and to teach tolerance and live in peace."
Laura Bush, center, is given a tour of the crypt at the Church of the Resurrection at Abu Ghosh by Brother Olivier, left, and Bishop Jean-Baptiste Gourion, right, on Monday, May 23, 2005, in Abu Ghosh, Israel.
Surrounded by Israeli police and security guards, Laura Bush arrives for a visit at the Western Wall and the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City Sunday, May 22, 2005. Anti-U.S. protesters heckled Laura Bush at a major Islamic holy shrine on Sunday, during a Mideast tour meant to defuse growing anti-American sentiment in the region.
Laura Bush, center, sits with Elizabeth Cheney, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Near East Affairs, right, and an unidentified nun, left, as monks sing a song at the Church of the Resurrection at Abu Ghosh on Monday, May 23, 2005, in Abu Ghosh, Israel.
First lady Laura Bush, second right, and Egypt's first Lady Suzanne Mubarak, right, accompanied by an unidentified Egyptian official chat with the puppet Nem Nem as they tour the set of Aalam Semsem, or Sesame World, the Egyptian version of the popular American children's show "Sesame Street" on Monday, May 23, 2005, in Cairo, Egypt. Mrs Bush was advocating childhood education during her visit to Egypt, part of a Middle East tour.
First lady Laura Bush, right, is given a tour of the pyramids of Giza by egyptologist Dr. Zahi Hawass on Monday, May 23, 2005, in Giza, Egypt.