For Israel, arguably the most consequential foreign policy achievement happened on Oct. 25, 2009. At a wedding.

On that date, Jared Kushner married Ivanka Trump, who had earlier that year converted to Judaism. Of their union, the President of the United States would later tell Israel’s Knesset: “(Jared) truly loves Israel … In fact, he loves it so much that my daughter converted … I didn’t know this was going to happen.”

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“At least, I think they’re happy. If they’re not, we have a big story, right? They have a great marriage, and they get along great. They’re best friends. They have a very special relationship.”

No one will ever know for certain, of course, if the Jared-Ivanka union directly benefited Israel. But all the available evidence suggests that it did. The U.S. president is notorious for turning on allies and friends — cf. Chris Christie, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Mike Pence, Bill Barr, Nikki Haley, John Bolton, Anthony Scaramucci, Michael Cohen, John Kelly and on and on — oftentimes with a vengeance.

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