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chairman donald trump Thrown light on jared kushnercontribution of Newly inaugurated ceasefire between Israel and HamaIt’s a strange anecdote about his son-in-law’s marriage to his daughter Ivanka because he Addressed Israel’s Parliament on Monday,
Trump was about three-quarters of the way through an hour-long speech Knesset While in Jerusalem he began by thanking his administration’s negotiating team, Kushner, special envoy Steve Witkoff and Secretary of State Marco Rubio for their work on the ceasefire.
After hailing Witkoff as a “great negotiator” who was “really good at real estate” in the years before Trump appointed him as his presidential envoy, Trump turned his attention to Kushner, who was brought in to help close Israeli negotiators on the deal, even though he had no official role in the president’s second administration.
As Kushner watched from a balcony above the Knesset floor, Trump told Kushner, whose family has a long friendship with the Israeli prime minister. benjamin netanyahu“Really love Israel.”
“Actually, they love that my daughter converted… I didn’t know that was going to happen,” he said.
Kushner, an observant Jew, married Trump’s eldest daughter Ivanka In 2009. She converted to Judaism under the care of an Orthodox rabbi before marriage.
Turning to Netanyahu, he quipped the development in Ivanka’s life “wasn’t for me” before telling Knesset members that he and Kushner are “very happy.”
“At least, I think they’re happy. If they’re not happy, we have a bigger story, OK? They have a great marriage, and they get along great. They’re best friends. They have a very special relationship,” he said.
Kushner’s role in closing the long-awaited peace deal, which resulted in the return of all 20 surviving hostages taken by Hamas during the October 7 terrorist attacks, follows his work on a series of normalization agreements between Israel and several Gulf Arab states known as the Abraham Accords.
Trump said Kushner’s work during his first term was “very special.”