Netanyahu calls Herzog’s address to Congress ‘an important speech’

By Lazar Berman

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and ToI Staff 19 July 2023, 7:04 pm

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President Isaac Herzog (R) tasks Likud chief Benjamin Netanyahu with the mandate to form a new Israeli government, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on November 13, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

WASHINGTON — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls President Isaac Herzog’s address to a joint session of Congress “an important speech by the country’s president…who expressed our strong and decisive position against Iran.”

“Together we will stand, together we will win,” Netanyahu tweets.

Opposition leader Yair Lapid congratulates Herzog on his speech, saying he showed “the beautiful face of democratic Israel, and stressed our shared values: equal rights, freedom of speech, separation of powers and an independent judiciary.”