Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu landed in the United States on Thursday to address the 79th Session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York City on Friday.
The premier did not speak to the press before boarding the “Wing of Zion” plane at Ben-Gurion Airport early on Thursday morning.
Netanyahu left immediately after convening the Security Cabinet amid the intensifying war with Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Israeli Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz will stand in for Netanyahu during the latter’s trip abroad. The prime minister is to fly back to Israel on Motzei Shabbos, according to a statement from his office.
U.S. President Joe Biden delivered his final address to the General Assembly on Tuesday. Speaking ahead of the anniversary of Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre, he called on world leaders not to “flinch from the horrors” of that day.
“Any country would have the right and responsibility to ensure that such an attack could never happen again,” said Biden.
He called on Israel and Hamas to accept the ceasefire deal that he first outlined in May and that has stalled ever since.
(JNS)