US President Joe Biden arrives at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, where he is greeted on the red carpet by President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal, the first lady.
They then speak with Israeli schoolchildren dressed in white, whose arms start to tire as they wave Israeli and US flags.
Entering the residence, Biden places his arm around Herzog before he signs the guestbook on a desk inlaid with mother-of-pearl that once belonged to British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.
Biden then stresses their shared Irish connections, saying that Herzog’s grandfather, Chief Rabbi of Ireland Isaac HaLevi Herzog, was known as the “Sinn Fein Rabbi.”
Herzog quotes former US president Ronald Reagan, who said when meeting former president Chaim Herzog — the current president’s father — “It’s a great day for the Irish.”
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