Congress Sends an Invitation to Benjamin Netanyahu

What a story the Israeli prime minister has to tell — and he’s the only one with the standing to tell it.

AP/Andrew Harnik
Prime Minister Netanyahu addresses Congress in 2015. AP/Andrew Harnik

The invitation to address a joint meeting of Congress sent to Prime Minister Netanyahu from Speaker Johnson and Senator Schumer sets up a moment that could be even more dramatic even than Mr. Netanyahu’s speech to Congress in 2015. That made the Israeli leader only the second statesman to have addressed America’s legislature three times — the other being Winston Churchill. Mr. Netanyahu would be the only one to have addressed it four times.

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