Prime Minister Netanyahu says he and his wife, Sara, “were very pleased to host Prince William on the first official royal visit to Israel by a member of the British royal family” earlier today.
“We discussed many things: Our respective military service, helicopters, soccer and the World Cup,” he says.
“There was a very moving moment in Prince William’s visit. He is the great-grandson of Princess Alice,” Netanyahu adds in a statement. “He met descendants of the family that she saved in Greece. She was there and protected a Jewish family from the Gestapo.
“We just met her descendants that met with him. I told him that he must be very proud of his great-grandmother for saving defenseless Jews. And as prime minister of Israel I am very proud that Jews are no longer defenseless. We have, thank G-d, an army to defend ourselves by ourselves.”
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