In a speech to Israel's parliament on a day when the country's living 20 hostages were released as part of a ceasefire agreement he helped broker, President Donald Trump told the Knesset, "This is the historic dawn of a new Middle East."
"This will be remembered as the moment that everything began to change, and change very much for the better," Trump said.
In a sign of the warm welcome he was receiving, many in the audience were wearing MAGA-style hats that read "Trump The Peace President."
"We gather on a day of profound joy, of soaring hope, of renewed faith -- and above all, a day to give our deepest thanks to the Almighty God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob," he said.
"After so many years of unceasing war and endless danger, today, the skies are calm, the guns are silent, the sirens