Netanyahu Praises US Alliance on America's 250th Birthday

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used a July 4 English-language video message to congratulate President Trump and Americans on America's 250th Independence Day and to frame the U.S.-Israel alliance around shared freedom. He linked the anniversary to 50 years since Operation Entebbe, recalling Yonatan Netanyahu's fall in the hostage rescue, and to the recent joint U.S.-Israeli campaign against Iran. Netanyahu said America's and Israel's enemies chant death to both countries and are wrong to think democracies are weak. Israel should keep this alliance anchored in values, military cooperation and gratitude, while insisting that freedom is defended against Iran and its proxies.