President Trump has tapped a Long Island businessman to serve as US ambassador to Hungary.

Benjamin Landa, 69, a Lawrence resident and the son of a Holocaust survivor, was nominated to serve as the top diplomat to the central European country, The Post confirmed.

“For him [Trump] to be aware of everything and give me the opportunity to represent our country is the greatest honor that’s ever been bestowed on me,” Landa said.

President Trump appointed Benjamin Landa, 69, a businessman and Lawrence resident, and the son of a Holocaust survivor, to serve as US ambassador to Hungary. Todd Shapiro

The 69-year-old entrepreneur’s father, Yehoshua Boruch Landa, served as a rabbi in Bishkov, Czechoslovakia before the Holocaust and survived Nazi persecution .

He immigrated to America before

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