Benjamin Netanyahu
“Your leadership makes me proud to be Jewish,” Casey Wasserman told the prime minister.
Israel is advancing a $31.8 million initiative to encourage demographic and economic growth in the country’s south.
The envoy was reprimanded for his criticism of Netanyahu, who spoke of his “personal relationship” with Putin.
The two leaders agreed to exchange high-level visits and deepen cooperation in security, agriculture and tourism as diplomatic ties are formally restored.
“I will only say or repeat what the prime minister has said himself: He will come to New York,” said Gideon Sa’ar.
“The State of Israel is a great light,” the Israeli premier told lawmakers.
Netanyahu is scheduled to meet with Trump on Dec. 29 at Mar-a-Lago in Florida.
Jerusalem “will not allow Hamas murderers to rearm and threaten us again,” the premier vowed.
Maj. Gen. Roman Gofman rushed to the thick of the battlefield with only his personal weapons, sustaining a gunshot wound in the leg.
The gathering marked the largest delegation of Israeli diplomatic representatives to visit the country, according to Israeli officials.
The two leaders have not met in public since 2017.
Following a meeting with Netanyahu in Jerusalem, the European leader said his country “will stand by your side in friendship.”
