Visiting Israeli President Isaac Herzog called for even closer ties between Israel and Germany as he spoke in Berlin on Tuesday. At the same time, the memory of German crimes under Nazi rule must be preserved, Herzog stressed in a speech in the Bundestag, or lower house of parliament. “The Jewish nation is a nation of remembrance,” Herzog said, adding that this is part of their identity. He called on the lawmakers to stand up and pray together to commemorate the souls of the 6 million murdered Jews. Bundestag President Bärbel Bas said: “Anti-Semitism is not just a problem of the past, not just…