Ben Gvir attends dinner at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort on first official US visit

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir attended a dinner in his honor at US President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida yesterday evening during his first official US visit. While the president was not in attendance, Ben Gvir’s spokesman says that he met with “dozens of senior businessmen from Miami.”

The statement adds that Ben Gvir met with GOP House Majority Whip Tom Emmer and was “invited to speak to members of Congress and senators from the Republican Party.” Speaking with Emmer, Ben Gvir stated that “we need to bomb Hamas’s food storage facilities.”

Footage from the dinner published online shows Ben Gvir expressing his love for the American people and boasting about changes he instituted to conditions for security prisoners in Israeli prisons.

Prior to the dinner at Mar-a-Lago, Ben Gvir visited a Miami Police station.

In a statement, his spokesman says that “Ben-Gvir is expected to meet with representatives of Jewish communities, public figures and American government officials.”

At one point, he was reportedly expected to meet with his counterpart in the Trump administration, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, but that meeting is no longer happening, according to a report in Haaretz.

Representatives of the Anti-Defamation League, American Jewish Committee, Jewish Federations of North America and umbrella group Conference of Presidents all told JTA they were not meeting with Ben Gvir, with the latter three noting that no meeting request had been made.

???????????????? — BELAAZ VID: Israeli national security minister @itamarbengvir speaking now at the Fundraiser event taking place at Trump’s in Mar-a-Lago estate.

“I love the American people very much. We have a joint war against the jihad, for many years I’m fighting against them. Baruch… pic.twitter.com/8t5lJ7CeNF

— Belaaz News (@TheBelaaz) April 23, 2025