In a meeting with US Vice President Mike Pence, Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, thanked the US for its support of Israel, calling the US Israel's greatest friend. The Prime Minister also talked about the significance of the location of the meeting saying:
“It was merely some 75 years ago that the Jewish people were absolutely defenseless. We were slaughtered by the millions here, by the Nazis and their collaborators. And they could do nothing. I think it’s significant that in this hour of despair, right here in this ground, young Jewish heroes, used literally their last ounce of strength and stood against thousands of Nazi criminals. They said if we must die, let us die as free men, let us save the honor of the Jewish people. Little did they know that they were actually in many ways symbolizing the rebirth of the Jewish people, the rebirth of the Jewish state, which was soon to come, and the rebirth of the Jewish army, which protects now the Jewish future.”