Watch Live: Biden holds news conference in Israel alongside Prime Minister Yair Lapid
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President Biden will hold a joint news conference Thursday in Jerusalem alongside Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid. It's the president's first stop on his trip to the Middle East, his first Middle East trip as president, although he's visited before as a senator and vice president.
The press conference is slated to begin at 7 a.m. ET.
White House officials have said the point of the Israel stop to is to reaffirm and reinforce the strong ties between that country and the U.S., particularly given global turbulence and challenges in the climate, energy and nuclear spaces. Upon arrival in Israel on Wednesday, the president visited Yad Vashem, the memorial to Holocaust victims in World War II, and received a briefing on Israel's Iron Dome and Iron Beam air defense systems.
