Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Knesset on October 13, 2025, following the announcement of a Gaza peace deal and the release of hostages.
In this pivotal speech, Netanyahu outlines the terms of the agreement, Israel’s security concerns, and the next steps toward ensuring stability in the region. The address comes amid cautious optimism — and deep questions about the future of Israeli-Palestinian relations.
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In this pivotal speech, Netanyahu outlines the terms of the agreement, Israel’s security concerns, and the next steps toward ensuring stability in the region. The address comes amid cautious optimism — and deep questions about the future of Israeli-Palestinian relations.
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00:00His Excellency President Herzog and his wife, Michal, Excellencies, distinguished guests,
00:23and, of course, first and foremost, our biggest and truest friend, the President of the United
00:32States, President Donald J. Trump.
00:46Welcome.
00:47Welcome to Jerusalem, our eternal capital.
00:53Welcome, sir.
00:55Welcome to Israel on this very moving day that will be forever engraved in the history of
01:06our nation.
01:07And you too, President, Mr. President, you too will be engraved in the history of our people
01:14and in the history of humankind.
01:16But as you know, and as it is said of us, we remember our friends.
01:23We know what your part is in all of this, how critical, what a critical part you have played
01:31in bringing back our hostages.
01:33On this day, we were just informed an hour or so ago that all our live hostages have come
01:44back to us.
01:46It is so very moving, so very exciting.
01:53We have waited for this moment for so long, and we are committed to bringing all of them
01:59back.
02:00So I would like to thank you personally and on behalf of the entire nation.
02:05Thank you so much to you, President Trump.
02:15Now, I know that the teleprompters are working well, though I'm not using them.
02:27But I'm not sure about the translation.
02:29So I'll say words in English.
02:34President Trump, the Knesset welcomes you and your distinguished delegation to Jerusalem,
02:41our eternal capital.
02:43This is your first visit to Israel since you recognize Jerusalem as our capital and moved
02:50the embassy here.
02:51Thank you, President Trump, for that.
03:04There are many other reasons to thank you since your last visit here.
03:15Thank you for recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights.
03:26Thank you for standing up to the lies against Israel and the United Nations.
03:42Thank you for recognizing in your 2020 peace plan our rights in Judea and Samaria, the ancestral
03:55homeland of the Jewish people.
03:57Thank you for the Jewish people.
04:06Thank you for brokering the historic Abraham Accords.
04:11Abraham.
04:12Abraham.
04:13Thank you for withdrawing from the disastrous Iran nuclear deal.
04:34Thank you for supporting Operation Rising Line and for your bold decision to launch Operation
04:41Midnight Hammer.
04:42Boy, is that – you've got to hear this.
04:47This is the most fitting name ever named for a military operation because a little after
04:59midnight, you really hammered them.
05:06My friends, this is only a partial list.
05:11But it's enough to affirm what I've said time and again.
05:15Donald Trump is the greatest friend that the State of Israel has ever had in the White House.
05:29No American president has ever done more for Israel.
05:52And as I said in Washington, it ain't even close.
05:56It's really not a match.
05:59Mr. President, today we welcome you here to thank you for your pivotal leadership in putting
06:07forward a proposal that got the backing of almost the entire world.
06:12A proposal – a proposal that brings all our hostages home.
06:19A proposal that ends the war by achieving all our objectives.
06:31A proposal that opens the door to an historic expansion of peace in our region and beyond
06:37our region.
06:38Mr. President, you are committed to this peace.
06:42I am committed to this peace.
06:44And together, Mr. President, we will achieve this peace.
06:49We've done it before.
06:54We've done it before in the Abraham Accords.
06:59And we'll do it again.
07:01Mr. President, today the Jewish calendar marks the end of two years of war.
07:07That war began on October 7th on the Jewish festival of Simchat Torah.
07:14You always tell me, and you tell the world, remember October 7th.
07:22Mr. President, we remember.
07:26We remember the thousands of Hamas terrorists who stormed into our towns in Kibbutzim.
07:33We remember the 1,200 people Hamas savagely slaughtered in cold blood, including dozens
07:40and dozens of Americans.
07:42We remember entire families burnt alive as they embraced each other.
07:49We remember the beautiful young Israelis brutally gunned down at the Nova Music Festival.
07:58We remember the hundreds of our citizens who were dragged into the dungeons of Gaza, including
08:0412 Americans, men and women, young and old, babies and elderly Holocaust survivors.
08:14My friends, Mr. President Donald, these monsters take babies as hostages.
08:26In response to this barbaric attack on October 7th, Israel did what it had to do.
08:33With indomitable courage, we set out to defend our people, to defeat our enemies and to release
08:41our hostages.
08:42Our heroic soldiers fought like lions.
08:47They fought on the frontlines of civilization and barbarism.
08:51Israel achieved amazing victories over Hamas and the entire Iran terror axis.
08:58Sinwar, Dev, Chania, Nasrallah, Assad, they're all gone.
09:04Iran's nuclear weapons and ballistic missile program, with your enormous help, Mr. President,
09:26rolled back.
09:27Half the Houthi leadership wiped out.
09:31But the price of this victory, the price of these victories, has been heavy.
09:38Nearly 2,000 of Israel's finest were lost, nearly half in battle.
09:44They left behind parents, spouses, siblings and children.
09:50Their love and laughter, their promise and potential, were lost forever.
09:58To the families of our fallen fighters, many of them are here, I say, I know the depth of
10:07your pain.
10:11I know the inconsolable grief that will accompany you for the rest of your lives.
10:20The State of Israel bows its head in eternal gratitude to our fallen heroes.
10:27Because of these heroes, our nation will survive.
10:33Because of these heroes, our nation will thrive.
10:37And because of these heroes, our nation will have peace.
10:43Mr. President, thousands of our brave soldiers were also wounded, suffering terrible blows to
10:53body and soul.
10:56Brave soldiers like Ari Speetz.
11:00Ari is an American.
11:05Ari is an American Israeli who was injured.
11:10I'd say cheated by the name of as the many times.
11:15Thank you very much.
11:19Ari is an American-Israeli who was injured in Gaza while searching for Hamas terrorists
11:47and weapons. Two of Ari's comrades were killed in this action and ten were injured. Ari was
11:55presumed dead but made a miraculous recovery despite losing three limbs.
12:05Ari, stand up for a minute alone. Stand up. There you go. There. Ari, you are the spirit
12:17of Joshua. You are the spirit of David. You are the spirit of the Maccabees. You are the
12:23spirit of Israel. I salute you. We all salute you.
12:36Sabine Tassa of Kibbutz Netiva Asara is watching us today from the Israeli Consulate in Los Angeles.
12:55Sabine lost her husband and her oldest son on October 7th. She is the mother of three other
13:04boys. Two of them, Kohen and Shai, witnessed their father jump on a Hamas grenade to save
13:13his two sons. We all saw the film of those two boys crying out in pain. Father is dead. Why?
13:28Why did God save me? Mr. President, my friend Donald, I have seen some very tough things in
13:37my life. But I couldn't bring myself to watch those boys suffering again. So I didn't see
13:46this film except once. Yet Sabine, their mother, has had the strength and fortitude to show the
13:58entire world. And my wife Sarah and I asked her, Sabine, how do you do it? Why do you do
14:10it? And she answered, I do it to show the entire world the monsters Israel is fighting and the
14:20justice of our cause. This is what she's doing once again in Los Angeles. Sabine, you can hear
14:25me now. So I want to tell you on behalf of all of us, you embody the spirit of our biblical
14:32heroines, Deborah, Ruth and Esther. You too are the spirit of Israel. And we all salute you.
14:41Mr. President, you asked me on our many conversations during the 12-day war with Iran, you asked me,
15:03how are the people holding up? And I said to you, our people are strong. Israelis are a nation of lions,
15:12with unlimited resolve to defend our country and secure our future. The people, the people give strength
15:20to our soldiers and the people give strength to me and to my colleagues. The Jewish people have risen from
15:28the ashes time and the ashes time and again. But when we formed the state of Israel and the army of Israel,
15:34we pledged never again, never again would be defenseless against our enemies. And that, that resolute strength
15:46not only assures our survival, it assures our future. It assures peace. We have paid, we have paid a high price for this war.
15:55We have paid a high price for this war. But our enemies now understand just how powerful
16:02and just how determined Israel is. They understand that attacking Israel on October 7th was a catastrophic mistake.
16:12They understand that Israel is strong and that Israel is here to stay. And this, Mr. President, is the indispensable
16:21foundation of peace. Peace through strength.
16:27Ladies and gentlemen, this is a momentous day, a day of great joy as the remaining hostages come home.
16:36My wife Sarah and I have met with the hostage families many times. There were no words to describe their agony,
16:44only tears of bottomless sorrow and unimaginable pain. At the beginning of the war, I promised to bring all the hostages home.
16:56Today, with the indispensable help, the determined and focused help, the unremitting help of President Trump's esteem,
17:06and with the incredible sacrifice and courage of the soldiers of Israel, we are fulfilling that promise.
17:21It has been a long journey to get here. In the first week of the war, our brave soldiers put military pressure on Hamas,
17:31and the international community put diplomatic pressure on them. This enabled us to secure the release of over 100 hostages.
17:41In heroic rescue attempts behind enemy lines, Israel's Special Forces rescued eight live hostages
17:48and brought back the remains of dozens more. But as time went on, we all know what happened.
17:56The diplomatic pressure was turned on its head. More and more governments bought into Hamas's false propaganda.
18:05More and more governments succumbed to anti-Semitic mobs in their own countries. They just turned on Israel.
18:12They called for us to surrender to Hamas's demands. Just leave Gaza immediately, they said. End the war without committing to disarm Hamas,
18:21without committing to demilitarize Gaza. Had Israel succumbed to those demands,
18:27not only would Sinwar, Nasrallah, Assad, and Iran's missile and nuclear program remain intact.
18:36Not only that, because in no time, the Hamas killers would be back on the border fence,
18:43ready to repeat the horrors of October 7th again and again, as they vowed to do.
18:49But just at that point, just at that point of maximum pressure on Israel,
18:56a man named Donald J. Trump was elected President of the United States.
19:02And, ladies and gentlemen, overnight, overnight, everything changed. Everything.
19:21Mr. President, thanks to your unequivocal backing of Israel,
19:30we secured a second hostage deal within weeks of your election.
19:36And in the months that followed, we worked closely together to forge a path to bring the remaining hostages home
19:43and end the war. End the war in a way that ensures the disarming of Hamas, the demilitarization of Gaza,
19:50and that Gaza would never again pose a threat to Israel.
19:54Two months ago, you fully backed my decision to send the IDF into the last Hamas stronghold in Gaza City.
20:02You shared my view that this military pressure would help free the hostages.
20:07And despite all the criticism, all the naysayers, we were right.
20:13Hamas caved in.
20:17And two weeks ago, you succeeded in doing something miraculous.
20:25You succeeded in doing something that no one believed was possible.
20:31You brought most of the Arab world, you brought most of the world,
20:38behind your proposal to free the hostages and end the war.
20:43I want to thank Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, and Ron Dermer for their great contribution to this effort.
21:13And I want to thank our negotiating team.
21:19I believe that the close cooperation between the two of us, between our two nations,
21:26combining Israel's military pressure and President Trump's unmatched global leadership.
21:33I have to tell you, I've seen a lot of American presidents.
21:36I've seen them all in the time that I've been here, and I've been here quite a lot of time.
21:41I've never seen anyone move the world so quickly, so decisively, so resolutely, as our friend President Donald J. Trump.
21:56With our military pressure and President Trump's global leadership, we achieved this historic moment.
22:09It's a moment of indescribable joy as our nation embraces our sons who are coming home.
22:28Mr. President, this week, Jews around the world, Jews around the world are going to read the Book of Ecclesiastes, Kohelet, in the Bible.
22:45The Bible has many miraculous moments.
22:50One of them was your decision to bomb Fordow.
23:00I think it was a pivot of history.
23:04Because it wasn't meant only to bomb Fordow.
23:07That action, and your previous action, of taking out Qasem Soleimani, the architect of death,
23:17I think that changed the balance of power in the world.
23:23You brought America back again to the driver's seat.
23:35Now, I said that we're going to read this week the Book of Ecclesiastes.
23:42It has – it's not a book of action.
23:45It's a book of meditations, of thought, of perspective on life and on death.
23:55And in this book we read the immortal words of King Solomon.
23:59To everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.
24:05Et milchama ve et shalom – a time for peace and a time for war.
24:14The last two years have been a time of war.
24:18The coming years will hopefully be a time for peace.
24:23Peace inside Israel and peace outside Israel.
24:50I look forward to continuing marching with you on the path we paved together with the Abraham Accords.
24:59Under your leadership, we can forge new peace treaties with Arab countries in the region and Muslim countries beyond the region.
25:09Abraham's children will work together to build a better future.
25:14A future – a future that will unite civilization against barbarism, light against darkness, and hope against despair.
25:26And my friends, I believe that with President Trump's leadership, this will happen a lot faster than people think.
25:37As Prime Minister of Israel, I extend my hand to hold those who seek peace with us.
25:49No one wants peace more than the people of Israel.
25:54Israel will always remain vigilant in defending itself.
25:58And Israel will always remain full of hope.
26:03Hope is our national anthem.
26:05Hope is our creed.
26:07Hope is our strength.
26:09It is time, my friends, to realize that hope and expand the circle of peace.
26:16Mr. President, thank you for all you have done for us.
26:23I have submitted your nomination to be the first non-Israeli recipient of the Israel Prize, Israel's highest award.
26:36As to that other prize, just a question of time, you'll get it.
26:41But I want you to get the Israel Prize, our highest award, to our greatest friend.
26:48When others were weak, you were strong.
27:07When others were fearful, you were bold.
27:10When others abandoned us, you stood by our side.
27:14On behalf of the government and people of Israel, I thank you for your extraordinary friendship.
27:20Thank you for helping bring our hostages home.
27:23Thank you for supporting Israel's march to victory.
27:26Thank you for paving a path to peace.
27:29In the United States, the United States, the United States, Donald.
27:33Thank you for joining us.
27:34Thank you for joining us.
27:36Thank you for joining us.
27:38The Excellency, my good friend, President Donald Trump, welcome again.
27:41Welcome to Israel, welcome to Jerusalem, welcome on this very exciting day.
27:45And now to recite the blessing.
27:48We are very fortunate to be alive, to have reached and to be here on this special day.
27:55Thank you very much.
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