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By Nette Noestlinger (Reuters) – Israel and Germany are tied together by the obligation to remember the Holocaust, Israeli President Isaac Herzog told the German parliament on Tuesday during a three-day visit to the country. At the start of his speech in the Bundestag, Herzog led a prayer to commemorate the murder of six million Jews during the Holocaust. “I bring no forgiveness and no forgetting,” he said during a speech that received a standing ovation from German lawmakers. “Only the dead have the right to forgive. While the living have no right to forget,” he said, quoting remarks made 35 …