Netanyahu says he’ll turn Eilat into a global trading hub

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells Eilat residents he wants to turn the Red Sea city into a “global transportation hub,” promising to discuss the issue on his upcoming trip to China.

Israel wants to turn Eilat’s port into “another shipping lane between Asia and Europe,” he says.

The prime minister also discusses the plans for a larger airport in the area.

“What a tremendous opportunity, that the whole world will come here,” he says.

Netanyahu also discusses his efforts to keeping African migrants out of the city.

“I remember this woman [in Eilat] who cried and said, ‘Mister prime minister, save us, save us, we’re being flooded,'” Netanyahu recounts.

“She spoke about her daughter, and I thought, ‘This has to end,'” he says.

“So what did we do? We built the fence and stopped all that.”