"Lion-hearted friend of Israel": Israeli leaders mourn Kirk
From CNN's Lex Harvey
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Newsmax event in Jerusalem in August.
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Israeli leaders mourned Charlie Kirk, a vocal pro-Israel advocate, in posts to social media.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Kirk a “lion-hearted friend of Israel” and said he spoke to the Turning Point USA co-founder two weeks ago and invited him to Israel.
“Sadly, that visit will not take place,” Netanyahu
wrote on X, adding, “We lost an incredible human being.”
Kirk, an evangelical Christian, was a staunch supporter of Israel.
Netanyahu’s son Yair
said on X he had lunch with Kirk and his wife Erika in Jerusalem a few years ago.
“The Charlie I met was so young, yet wise beyond his years. I met someone deeply knowledgeable in history and geopolitics — someone who understood the importance of Israel to America, to the Christian people, and to the Christian faith,” Yair wrote, alongside a photo of Kirk holding an Israeli flag.
Foreign minister Gideon Sa’ar also mourned Charlie Kirk in a
post to X, calling him “an incredible friend of Israel” and a “fearless warrior for truth and freedom.”