Isaac Herzog
The countries of the world must fight terrorism together, the Israeli president said.
Aviad Gizbar, who owns a hummus restaurant at a gas station in Eli, shot and killed the attacker, preventing further bloodshed.
The president stressed the importance of Israel’s relations with nations across Africa in a meeting with the three new ambassadors, from Equatorial Guinea, Burundi and Eswatini.
Geert Wilders won a landslide victory in the Nov. 22 election, possibly paving the way for the most pro-Israel government in the Netherlands’ history.
The Israeli president will participate in the opening of the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam.
While emphasizing that Israel will maintain freedom of worship, the Israeli president noted that “rogue elements, extreme Islamic fundamentalist groups” seek to escalate tensions and “that we will not permit.”
The Caucus nation supplies around 30% of the Jewish state’s oil.
The Israeli president called the Friday encounter at the Munich Security Conference a “good discussion.”
Joining the president will be freed hostages Adi Shoham and Aviva Segal, whose husbands remain in Hamas hands.
“This abandonment of moral clarity, the desertion of the vision of international justice and its replacement by cynical politics and outright falsehoods, will have repercussions far beyond Israel,” said Israel’s president.
“We must fight lies and hatred wherever we find them,” Israel’s president said.
One of the survivors in attendance was forced to flee her home again, this time because of the Hamas terrorists attacks in Israel on Oct. 7.
