Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Newsmax on Wednesday that if anyone can broker a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, it is President Donald Trump.

Netanyahu’s comments came ahead of Trump’s high-stakes meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday in Alaska. The summit, requested by Putin, is being billed as a “listening session” aimed at finding a path to peace in Ukraine. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will not attend but will reportedly meet virtually with Trump and Vice President JD Vance before the talks.

“Look, if anyone can do it, it’s President Trump,” Netanyahu said during a special edition of “Carl Higbie FRONTLINE” from Jerusalem. “I nominated him for the Nobel [Peace] Prize because with his leadership and our partnership, we did the Abraham Accords which brought after a quarter of a century of no peace treaties, we brought four peace treaties between Israel and Arab states in six weeks.

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