Netanyahu recommends nominating Trump for Nobel Peace Prize

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday told President Donald Trump he had nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize, handing Trump a nomination letter during a meeting at the White House.

Following US President Donald Trump’s opening remarks to reporters before their White House dinner, Netanyahu expressed his appreciation for the American leader on behalf of Israelis as well as Jews around the world.

Netanyahu touts Trump’s “pursuit of peace and security in which you are leading in many lands, but now, especially in the Middle East.”

“Our teams together make an extraordinary combination to meet challenges and seize opportunities,” Netanyahu says, highlighting the US strikes against Iran.

“But the president has already realized great opportunities. He forged the Abraham Accords. He’s forging peace as we speak, in one country, in one region, after the other,” Netanyahu continues.

The premier then gets to his feet and presents Trump, across the table, with a letter he sent to the Nobel Prize committee nominating the US president for the peace prize.

“It’s well deserved, and you should get it,” the Israeli premier says.

“Wow,” Trump says. “Coming from you in particular, this is very meaningful.”

Nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize are an open process, and any government official in the world can nominate an individual, as well as any former Nobel winner and any university rector, director or professor in certain fields.

Trump has also already been nominated for the prize this year.

(With inputs from Reuters, Times of Israel)