Trump is ‘great friend’, but Israel will do ‘whatever it takes’ for security: Netanyahu

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said the country will do “whatever it takes” to ensure its security, “with or without a deal”, Al Jazeera reports.

Though Netanyahu has praised US President Donald Trump as “the greatest friend we have had in the White House”, he says, “Israel’s existence is not negotiable.”

Netanyahu is speaking at a state service for the reburial of Shimon Leib and Rivka Herzl, the grandparents of Theodore Herzl, the founder of political Zionism, according to Ynet.

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