PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: Secretary Rubio, Marco, welcome again to Jerusalem. We've had incredible visits, first by President Trump in the Knesset, something that will be etched in our history. We had the Vice President yesterday, we have you today. This is a circle of trust and partnership. You've been an extraordinary friend of Israel.

And now we face days of destiny. We want to advance peace. We still have security challenges. But I think that we can work together, and by working together both address the challenges and seize the opportunities, and plenty of both. And welcome again, dear friend.

SECRETARY RUBIO: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for having us. And again, we're back here just a few - less than - just a little bit over a week after a very historic day where President Trump's work with our partners led to this extraordinary breakthrough. Now we have more work ahead of us, but we feel very positive about it. We're making good progress. It's amazing that in just seven or eight days the kinds of things and systems that have been set up.

No one is under any illusions this is - we've already done the impossible once, and we intend to keep doing that if we can. We have good partners that we're working on - we feel confident and positive about the progress that's being made. We're clear-eyed about the challenges too.

And - but the President has made this a top priority, I think as evidenced by the fact that both Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner were here for much of the week - I know you spent time with them - and the Vice President just left. We crossed on the way. And then I'm here now today because this is a priority. It's a very important achievement, but there's more work to be done and bigger achievements that lie ahead. And so we're here to work on that, and we feel very positive and confident that we're going to get there despite substantial obstacles. We're going to get there.

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