Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on his trip to Washington, DC, sat down for an English-language interview published Friday with a prominent evangelical Christian leader and adviser to US President Donald Trump, in which he lauded the American president and urged Christians to visit Israel.

The forty-minute interview with pastor Paula White — the head of the White House Faith Office and a longtime proponent of the so-called “prosperity gospel,” which sees material wealth as a product of God’s favor — was conducted at the Blair House, where foreign dignitaries stay as guests of the president.

It began with a question about the coming of Armageddon: “The Christian vision of the End of Days foretells of some profound transformation and redemption, and based on the events that are unfolding today, do you feel that we are seeing these signs of the vision come to fruition?” White asked.

Netanyahu responded that the return of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel was itself a miracle and a realization of prophecy, while also paying homage to Zionist leader Theodor Herzl, whom he referred to as “a great prophet, like a modern Moses.” The prime minister then spoke about Trump, noting, among other things, that the leader recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, “which is also mentioned in the Bible many times.”

White — who was once criticized for a sermon in which she prayed for the miscarriage of “all Satanic pregnancies” — then brought up the assassination attempt against Trump last summer, referring to it as “6:11” after the time the shooting occurred on July 13, and relating that 6:11 p.m. was also “the exact........

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