(NewsNation) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has nominated President Donald Trump for the Israel Prize, the country's highest cultural honor.

"I’ve submitted your nomination to be the first non-Israeli recipient of the Israel Prize," Netanyahu said Monday in an address to the Knesset, Israel's parliament.

"As to that other prize, it's just a question of time. You'll get it," he added, in a nod to Trump's quest for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Netanyahu described Trump as the “greatest friend that the state of Israel has ever had in the White House" and said "no American president has ever done more for Israel."

Israel began receiving the last living hostages held by Hamas on Monday and prepared to release nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners under the terms of a ceasefire agreement

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