"I have no other country": President Herzog closed a circle with Nancy Pelosi

The Speaker of the US House of Representatives paid a state visit to the President's House and met with Ehud Manor's widow, whose poem she read in Congress after the Capitol events. To the President

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16/02/2022

Wednesday, 16 February 2022, 19:19 Updated: 20:25

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In the video: The Speaker of the US House of Representatives visits the Knesset (Still photography: Noam Moskowitz, Video photography: The Knesset channel)

Today (Wednesday), President Yitzhak Herzog hosted Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.

In January last year, after breaking into the Capitol, Pelosi quoted Manor in a congressional speech, "I have no other country" - which she first heard from Herzog himself at a 2016 meeting, following the election of Donald Trump as president.

"When we sat in the Saban Forum in 2016, and Nancy spent the night on the political situation in her country following the 2016 election, she was a little depressed," Herzog recalled today.

"A year ago I lost the election for prime minister, so I was a little depressed too. I told Nancy about the beautiful song in Hebrew that says: 'I will not be silent, because my country has changed its face. I will not give up on her, I will remind her and sing here in her ears until she opens her eyes.' "She pulled out a napkin, wrote the sentence on it and asked who the poet was. I thought his name was Ehud Manor."

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In the video: "I have no other country" - Pelosi quotes Ehud Manor (Photo: C-SPAN)

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• House Speaker Nancy Pelosi quoted Ehud Manor: "I will not be silent because my country has changed its face"

According to the president, a year and a half later, "Nancy returned to Israel and said, 'Thank you for the song.' I did not remember what it was about. "Which were short but rather poignant, with a quote from the famous Israeli poet Ehud Manor: 'I will not be silent because my country has changed its face.'

Pelosi thanked the president.

"Art unites us all. You can always use the power of inspiration and shared values ​​to forget about the differences between us. For a life of wonderful friendship between our countries. God bless Israel and America."

The president ended his remarks with another song by Ehud Manor, "Walk and Follow Me."

"The words of the poet can be interpreted as a song that addresses a love, a country, or another object," Herzog said.

"I will quote the lyrics of the song: 'Walk behind you, breathe the scorching sun, dream of yourself in front of your sky, hurt you and fall in love again.' I believe that the relationship with the United States is an endless love story. Thank you for being here with us. Of America - cheers! ".

Herzog and Pelosi at the President's House, today (Photo: Official website, Amos Ben Gershom to Am)

The meeting was also attended by the Israeli Ambassador to the United States and the brother of President Michael (Mike) Herzog, the United States Ambassador to Israel Thomas Richard Niles, as well as a delegation of seven members of Congress - Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff;

Chairman of the Subcommittee on Middle East, North Africa and the War on Terror Ted Deutsch;

Congresswoman Barbara Lee;

Congressman Bill Keating;

Congressman Eric Swallow;

Congressman Row Cana;

And Congressman Andy Kim.

Earlier, Pelosi visited the Knesset with a delegation of American members of Congress.

Pelosi and her partner were received at the Knesset plaza at an official reception, to the sound of trumpet cheers and the playing of the two countries' anthems.

The Speaker of the Knesset, MK Miki Levy, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives reviewed the Knesset Guard's honor guard and laid wreaths at the foot of Gilad, the victims of the Israeli military operations at the entrance plaza to the Mishkan.

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