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Businessman Haim Saban hosted President Biden at his home in Los Angeles yesterday (Tuesday) as part of a fundraising event for his presidential election campaign.
In a corona test before the event, Saban was found to be positive and was therefore absent from the event.
Despite this, he had a Zoom conversation with President Biden that dealt, among other things, with the war in Gaza and relations with Israel.
Saban told Walla: "I won't give the world specific details about the one-on-one conversations I'm having with President Biden, but I can say that our conversation re-emphasized for me the fact that President Biden cares deeply - in awe - about Israel's security and wants to ensure that it remains a state Jewish, democratic and prosperous".
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The meeting between Biden and the Israeli Saban comes after at the beginning of the month the Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gabir criticized the American President in an interview he gave to the Wall Street Journal, in which he claimed, among other things, that the former President of the United States, Donald Trump, would be better for Israel. "Instead of giving us the His full backing, Biden is busy providing humanitarian aid and fuel to Gaza, which goes to Hamas," said Minister Ben Gabir in the first interview he gave to foreign media since the establishment of the government. "If Trump was in power, the conduct of the United States would be completely different."
In the interview, Minister Ben Gabir also He spoke of his ambitions to clear the Gaza Strip of its residents, as part of "voluntary migration", and the establishment of Israeli settlements. "The residents of Gaza should be encouraged to voluntarily migrate to other parts of the world," said Minister Gabir and offered to pay the residents of Gaza financial incentives in exchange for their migration. "This is the true humanitarian option ", he called it.
Against the backdrop of the rising political barrage in Israel following the apparent kidnapping deal, and the calls for elections, Ben Gabir sends an implicit threat to the Prime Minister. "Netanyahu is at a crossroads," said Ben Gabir. "He must choose which direction he will go."
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