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Netanyahu meets with Romania’s Ciolacu, the 1st world leader to visit Israel since start of war

17 October 2023, 1:02 pm Edit
Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu in Berlin, Germany, July 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu in Berlin, Germany, July 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Romania’s Marcel Ciolacu in Jerusalem.

Ciolacu is accompanied on the visit by a number of officials, including Defense Minister Angel Tîlvar.

Ciolacu is the first world leader to visit Israel since the start of the war with Hamas, which began when the Gaza-based terror group carried out a cross-border assault, killing at least 1,300 people, mainly civilians.

Terrorists also kidnapped at least 200 more, many of them babies, children and the elderly.

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