Candidate Barack Obama visited the Yad Vashem overlooking Jerusalem today, after meeting with Defense Minister Barak and Benjamin Netanyahu. Obama got a brief tour of the Holocaust museum, which displayed some photos of Buchenwald concentration camp - the camp that Obama’s uncle helped liberate in World War II.

At the museum’s Hall of Remembrances, Obama, wearing a white yarmulke, laid a wreath at a the site where some of the ashes from concentration camps were buried, and “enhanced” the eternal flame burning next to the memorial site.

Following the ceremony, Obama signed the museum’s guest book. “At a time of great peril and promise, war and strife we are blessed to have such a powerful reminder of mans potential for great evil but also our capacity to rise from tragedy and remake our world,” he wrote. “Let our children come here and know this history so they can add their voices to proclaim ‘never again.’ And may we remember those who perished, not only as victims but also as individuals who hoped and loved and dreamed like us and who have become symbols of the human spirit.”

According to the pool report, following a brief statement to cameras, an Israeli journalist shouted out a question about Iran, but Obama did not answer, telling the reporter it was “inappropriate” to have a news conference.

Obama will visit Palestinian territory later this afternoon.