Jared Kushner

I meet with a lot of different world leaders, and some of them, I would say, they're very, very special transformational figures.

And some, I would say, how the hell is this person running a country?

And Bibi is somebody who has done a lot for the state of Israel.

He has a tremendous understanding of the security apparatus.

He has tremendous global relations with

So for a crisis like this, I think Bibi's the leader you want, if you're Israel, to be in that seat.

I think he's ambitious in what he's going to look to achieve.

He understands his role in history as somebody who's helped strengthen Israel economically, militarily.

And I don't think he wants to see his legacy destroyed.

be somebody who left israel more vulnerable than it had to be so i think in that regard he'll be incredibly strong but i also think that he'll hopefully be calculating in the risk that he takes and not create more risk than is needed and that's easy to say you know the two of us sitting here having a conversation when you're sitting in that chair as a leader

um in the fog of war it's a very very um it's a very hard decision to make he's been here before he um he he knows the weight of the situation i'm sure he knows the moment and i pray that uh that he'll do uh what's right here to bring the best outcome possible

On the one hand, the political turmoil is a sign of a vibrant democracy.

I think it's been actually nice to see how people have fought for their country and their beliefs in a democratic way.

You compare that to the Palestinians, where there's no democracy, there's no free speech, there's no free press.

You can't disagree with the leadership in Israel.

If you want to be homosexual, you can have a

You can go to a parade and live your life.

In Gaza, they'll throw you off a building and kill you.

So in Israel, you have the freedoms, which I think make it a special place, and you have a very vibrant democracy.

With that being said, the times in Jewish history where the Jewish people have been most vulnerable have been when there's been division, and that's when the temple was destroyed.