Obama hosting Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel for lunch

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is inviting fellow Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel back to the White House.

Obama is having lunch with the author and activist at the executive mansion on Tuesday.

The lunch with Wiesel, a strong supporter of Israel, comes during a period of strained relations between the U.S. and Israel and as Obama pushes for renewed Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

Wiesel visited the White House last February when he accepted an award for his work to educate the country on the Holocaust.

Wiesel survived the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. Last June, when Obama visited Germany, Wiesel accompanied the president on a tour of Buchenwald.

Wiesel won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. Obama won last year.