New Delhi: US President Donald Trump received a standing ovation from members of Israeli Parliament on Monday for helping broker the Gaza ceasefire deal with Hamas.

Trump, who arrived in Teal Aviv to a red carpet welcome earlier in the day, was received at the Parliament by speaker Amir Ohana with the words, “Welcome to Jerusalem. Welcome to the Knesset. We’ve been longing for this day”. ADVERTISEMENT

Ohana said that Trump is not just “another American president,” but a “giant of Jewish history – one for whom we must look back two and a half millennia into the mists of time to find a parallel, in Cyrus the Great.”

It was Cyrus the Great who permitted Jews to return to Israel, and rebuild the Second Temple in Jerusalem in the sixth century BCE.

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