Preparations are underway for the upcoming visit of the US President Barack Obama, at the Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, on March 19. US President Barack Obama is scheduled to arrive on 20 March for a two-day visit to Israel, the West Bank and Jordan, on the first foreign trip of his second term.

A Palestinian woman walks past vandalized posters showing US President Barack Obama in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on March. 15. Obama's trip to Jerusalem and the West Bank, which Israeli officials say will take place March 20-22, is the U.S. leader's first trip to the region as president, and his first overseas trip since being reelected.

Preparations continue a day a head of the arrival of US President Barack Obama at the president's residence on March 19, in Jerusalem, Israel. Obama will make his first visit as President to the region tomorrow, and his itinerary will include meetings with the Palestinian and Israeli leaders as well as a visit to the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.

Ariel University students hold a demonstration with human cardboard cutouts in front of the US Consulate in Jerusalem, protesting for not being invited to hear the speech of US President Barack Obama in front of Israeli students. The speech will be held on 21 March at the Jerusalem International Convention Center. Obama arrives on March 20 for a two-day visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

Israeli children wave flags during a rehearsal, a day a head of the arrival of US President Barack Obama at the president's residence on March 19, in Jerusalem, Israel. Obama will make his first visit as President to the region tomorrow, and his itinerary will include meetings with the Palestinian and Israeli leaders as well as a visit to the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.

Gun shop customers shop for weapons as they listen to a live stream of a President Barack Obama's gun control proposals at the Bullet Hole gun shop in Sarasota, Fla. on Jan. 16.

A U.S. flag flies at half-staff at the White House in Washington D.C., Dec. 14, 2012. A tearful President Barack Obama expressed "overwhelming grief" on Friday for the victims of a shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School and called on Americans to set aside politics and take "meaningful action" to prevent further tragedies of this kind.

A flag at the U.S. Capitol flies at half-staff in honor of the Connecticut school shooting victims in Washington D.C., Dec. 14.

A National Park Service employee lowers flags at the base of the Washington Monument to half-staff after President Barack Obama ordered the action while speaking on the shootings at the Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, in Washington, D.C.

An American flag at the center of Newtown, Conn. stands at half-staff on Dec. 14.

A member of the congregation prays for President Barack Obama to be successful in his bid for re-election during a service at the St. Richard Catholic Church in Kogelo, western Kenya, Nov. 4. Kogelo village is the home of Sarah Obama, the step-grandmother of the U.S. President, and many Kenyans consider Obama, with a mother from Kansas and a father from Kenya, as one of their own.

U.S. Olympic 400m sprint gold medalist Sanya Richards-Ross takes a picture with U.S. President Barack Obama as the 2012 U.S. Olympic and Paralympic teams visit the White House in Washington, on Sept. 14.

US President Barack Obama greets US Olympians on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, on Sept. 14, during ceremony to honor the 2012 US Olympic and Paralympic teams.

Members of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic teams, including swimmer Michael Phelps, gather on the South Lawn of the White House on Sept. 14, in Washington, DC. The U.S. team brought home 104 medals, 46 of them gold medals, from the games in London.

U.S. President Barack Obama greets U.S. Paralympic swimmer Brad Snyder as first lady Michelle Obama welcomes members of the 2012 U.S. Olympic and Paralympic teams to the White House in Washington, o Sept. 14.

US President Barack Obama speaks as First Lady Michelle Obama and Vice President Joe Biden look on during a ceremony to honor the 2012 US Olympic and Paralympic teams on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, on Sept. 14.

US First Lady Michelle Obama holds President Barack Obama's hand as she speaks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, on Sept. 14 during ceremony to honor the 2012 US Olympic and Paralympic teams.

President Barack Obama sends off participants of the Wounded Warrior Project's Soldier Ride, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington D.C. on April 20.

Cyclists with the sixth annual Wounded Warrior Project's Soldier Ride wait to ride around the South Lawn of the White House in Washington D.C. on April 20.

People in the crowd use their camera phones to snap photos of U.S. President Barack Obama during a speech at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Fla. on April 10.