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The Knesset was lit in the colors of the U.S. flag with the Knesset Guard and Speaker Amir Ohana saluting President Donald Trump, June 22, 2025. Photo by Noam Moskowitz/Knesset Press Office.
Knesset lit in red, white and blue in tribute to US strikes on Iran
“I wish to thank President Trump for a historic, courageous and profoundly moral act,” said the parliament's Speaker Amir Ohana.
JNS Staff
June 23, 2025
Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana holds a press conference at the parliament in Jerusalem, Sept. 6, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Ohana: Israeli sovereignty over Judea, Samaria ‘only way’ to peace
"On the 7th of October, not only Israeli citizens were murdered but also the idea that was mistakenly called 'the two-state solution,'" said the Knesset speaker.
Akiva Van Koningsveld
Feb. 23, 2025
Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana meets with European Parliament President Roberta Metsola in Jerusalem on Feb. 13, 2025. Source: @AmirOhana/X.
Knesset speaker: Hamas killed two-state solution on Oct. 7
Amir Ohana told visiting European Parliament President Roberta Metsola that only Trump's plan for Gaza offers a path forward.
JNS Staff
Feb. 13, 2025
Argentina's Foreign Minister Gerardo Werthein stands at the Hall of Remembrance after laying a wreath during his visit to the Yad Vashem: The World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem on Feb. 2, 2025. Photo by Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images.
Israel invites Milei to address Knesset, as Argentina’s foreign minister visits
Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana told Gerardo Werthein that Javier Milei is the “most pro-Israeli president in the history” of the South American nation.
JNS Staff
Feb. 4, 2025
Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana (left) lights Chanukah candles at the ceremony. Photo by Amelie Botbol.
Oct. 7 heroes honored at Knesset Chanukah ceremony
The event was led by Iris Haim, whose son, Yotam, was one of three hostages misidentified as Hamas terrorists and accidentally killed last year.
Amelie Botbol
Dec. 31, 2024
Paraguayan President Santiago Peña addresses the 78th U.N. General Assembly at the headquarters of the United Nations in New York on Sept. 19, 2023. Photo by Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images.
Paraguay to reopen its embassy in Jerusalem
The move on Dec. 12 will bring the number of embassies in Israel's capital to six.
Dec. 3, 2024
Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana attends a plenum session in Jerusalem on Aug. 14, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.
Israel re-establishes embassy in Paraguay ahead of nation’s moving own mission to Jerusalem
The sequence of events was an unflinching boost of support for Israel in Latin America at a time when the Jewish state has been facing international opprobrium over the war in Gaza.
Etgar Lefkovits
Sept. 18, 2024
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) speaks at Sixth & I before 50 American Jewish leaders visit Israel, on Oct. 18, 2023. Photo courtesy of Bo Harris.
Israeli officials slam Schumer’s ‘undermining’ speech on Netanyahu
Netanyahu's Likud Party charged that "Israel is not a banana republic, but an independent and proud democracy."
March 15, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a Cabinet meeting at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv, Dec. 31, 2023. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.
Likud sparks backlash after slamming Meron report as politically driven
Criticism came from within and without the ruling party over its response to the Meron commission's findings.
David Isaac
March 7, 2024