Israel Prize

Netanyahu went to New York for the General Assembly meeting.

And I think notably when I think Netanyahu awarded the Israel Prize or something.

I think it's never gone to a non-Israeli.

Awarded Trump that and hoping that Trump would visit and he didn't.

But there's a new-- there seem to be the n- the strategy this year seemed to have a new add-on to the usual strategy playbook, which was President Trump.

And there were a lot of people thinking maybe even if he had the Israel Prize, Trump, he will come and he will campaign for Netanyahu.

And it seemed that whenever Trump now talks about Netanyahu, he talks about him as a war leader, and Bibi always likes to consider himself Churchill, and Churchill, a war leader, was also defeated in 1945.

So I'm just wondering, how central do you think for Netanyahu was the Trump endorsement, and what do you think for Netanyahu, what went wrong? Yes, he had bumps with Trump over Lebanon, as we famously know, and on other things connected to Iran, but how important is it? We're now less than two weeks out.

I was involved in bringing in the people who eventually created the Lothar Drone School, which is the Alavi family from California.

They themselves should be getting the Israel Prize.

They completely changed the course of the entire war.

Again, this is talking about the civilian efforts that had such a drastic impact.

Well, you have President Trump, who, interestingly, Netanyahu hoped to have Trump assisting his campaign.

He wanted to have him as his special guest on Israel Independence Day and give him the Israel Prize, the highest national prize for his support for for the Jewish people or something like that.

Trump didn't show up.

And since the debacle in the war, the recent war against Iran, he met Netanyahu only once without a press conference during Netanyahu's visit to the United Nations General Assembly.

The Friends of the IDF has released an English language video library featuring over fifty first-hand testimonies from former hostages, soldiers, and victims' families, aiming to inform supporters in the United States.

Additionally, an event at NYU marked three years since October seventh, with discussions on Hamas sexual violence and the fight against denial, featuring Israel Prize laureate Kochav Elkayam Levy and feminist scholar Carol Gilligan.

In New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani faced jeers and accusations at an Israelis for Peace event memorializing October seventh amid pro-Hamas chants.

In economic and defense news, the innovation economy in southern Israel demonstrates remarkable resilience despite the ongoing conflict.

And here's the detail that I find almost too on the nose.

In 1984, the Development Towns Project won the Israel Prize for its contribution to society.

The state gave itself an award for the thing.

For the contribution.