Kevin McCarthy is about to address the Knesset after earlier meeting Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv.
It’ll be the first time a House speaker has addressed the country’s parliament in a quarter-century, when another Republican, Newt Gingrich, spoke there in 1998.
Netanyahu hailed McCarthy, who is leading a bipartisan delegation of lawmakers to celebrate the country’s 75th anniversary, as: “a champion of the Israeli-American alliance”.
The Knesset reconvenes…