In ‘moving’ moment, PM visits site of signing of Balfour Declaration

Following talks with PM May in London, Netanyahu visits the room where then-foreign secretary Arthur Balfour penned his famous declaration announcing British support for “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.”

“With British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, exactly in the place where nearly 100 years ago Foreign Secretary Balfour signed the declaration recognizing the right of the Jewish people to a national home in the Land of Israel,” Netanyahu writes on Facebook, in a blurb accompanying an image of him and Johnson.

“The Balfour Declaration was incorporated into the terms of the British Mandate and adopted by the United Nations – and until today it reminds a binding document that defines the international legal status of the Land of Israel. Being in this room was a particularly moving moment for me as the prime minister of Israel.”