Joe Biden dispensed with both social distancing and the chair arranged for him Wednesday as he embraced two Holocaust survivors, then knelt to speak with them during his first trip to Israel as US president. Rene Quint, 86, and Giselle Cycowicz, 95, were scheduled to have a brief conversation with Biden at Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust museum. But the president quickly put the women at ease, signalling to them to sit down after they rose to greet him when he walked over following a wreath-laying ceremony to honour Holocaust victims. Get The Jewish News Daily Edition by email and...