Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Knesset as it opens the summer session, with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and other members of a bipartisan US House delegation in attendance.
“Israel has no better friend on the planet,” Netanyahu says in English.
“You’re in the pulsating heart of Israeli democracy… it’s a very noisy heart,” he adds.
Switching to Hebrew, Netanyahu says preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons is at the top of Israel’s priorities and that he had spoken with US lawmakers about “expanding the circle of peace” with additional Arab states.
Going back to English, Netanyahu comments on the judicial overhaul and the negotiations being hosted by President Isaac Herzog.
“My friends and I are committed to trying to get a broad consensus, as broad as we can get, on the matter of judicial reform,” he says.
He also says: “Israel has no better friend than the United States and the United States has no better friend than the State of Israel.”
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