(JNS) Israeli President Reuven Rivlin met with the United Kingdom’s Prince William this week, asking the royal to bring a “message of peace” to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas.

“I know that you’re going to meet President Abbas. I would like you to send him a message of peace,” Rivlin told the Duke of Cambridge.

“And tell him it is about time, it is about time that we have to find together the way to build confidence. To build confidence as a first step to bring to [an] understanding that we have to bring an end to the tragedy between us that has been going on for 120 years,” said Rivlin.

William, who is second-in-line to the throne, is slated to meet with Abbas on Wednesday.