As they walked down the red carpet on the tarmac at Ben Gurion Airport, US President Donald Trump said to President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, “It’s a great day. Maybe your best day.”
“This is history,” responded Netanyahu, in new footage released by his office.
According to Israel’s Ambassador to Washington Yehiel Leiter, Trump told him at the airport, “You know your son is looking down at you with a smile, you know that, right?”
“My heart burst,” writes Leiter on X.
Leiter’s son, Major (Res.) Moshe Yedidia Leiter, was killed in fighting in the Gaza Strip in 2023.
US Ambassador Mike Huckabee says that as he greeted Netanyahu on the tarmac, he congratulated the prime minister, saying “his unflinching leadership against so much opposition was key to end of war and hostage release.”
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