Veteran Knesset member Binyamin (Fouad) Ben Eliezer contacted Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu after it was announces that US President Barack Obama will visit Israel in March and said that a speech at the Knesset, in Israel's capital city, would be especially fitting for the occasion. 

"The people of Israel are certainly eager to hear the President of the United States talking to them directly and there is no more appropriate arena than the Knesset for the U.S. President to speak. I would like to invite President Obama to speak in the Knesset as previous U.S. presidents have done in the past. I believe that such a move, a direct speech to the people of Israel from the Knesset, goes far beyond the  ceremonial meaning, and that this particular visit will be very important," said Ben Eliezer.