Beforehand, the guests from Israel as well as teachers and pupils from Friedrich-Schiller-Gymnasium Marbach visited a refugee shelter and discussed the refugee issue.Other items on the agenda for the week-long visit include the Natzweiler concentration camp memorial, the Celtic Museum in Eberdingen-Hochdorf, Besigheim and Bönnigheim, the Robert Franck School in Ludwigsburg, Ludwigsburg Castle, the Weißenhofsiedlung Stuttgart, the Ludwigsburg Central Office, the Ludwigsburg Integrated Control Center and the synagogue in Munich.
The friendship between the region in the north of Israel and the district has existed since 1983 and is the district's oldest partnership. It was officially sealed in 1997 with the exchange of partnership documents. Today, regular student exchanges take place between schools in the district and their partner schools in the Upper Galilee. There are also close exchanges in teacher training and between the Kliniken Ludwigsburg-Bietigheim gGmbH and the ZIV Medical Center in the Upper Galilee.
