Homeland Security chief Noem visits Netanyahu ahead of Jerusalem Day

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday evening.

Noem met the Israeli leader in Jerusalem, where she voiced "strong appreciation for the Prime Minister’s policies, particularly the construction of the border fence with Egypt and the conduct of the ongoing war," Netanyahu's office said. 

Others who attended the meeting were Israeli Military Secretary Maj. Gen. Roman Gofman; Foreign Policy Advisor Dr. Ophir Falk; Prime Minister’s Spokesperson Dr. Omer Dostri; and U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee.

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Earlier in the day, Netanyahu met with Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nv.

"The U.S.-Israel alliance is strong and steadfast. The United States stands with the people of Israel!" Huckabee wrote on X.

The visit came on the eve of Jerusalem Day, which celebrates the reunification of East Jerusalem, which includes the Old City, with West Jerusalem. It also came days after a Chicago man shot and killed two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington D.C., last week. 

Yaron Lischinsky, 31, was an Israeli citizen who had been granted "official guest" status by the U.S. State Department. The other victim, Sarah Milgrim, 26, was also employed by the Israeli Embassy. The young couple was set to be engaged.

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Netanyahu has vowed to continue to go after Hamas and its leadership amid the terror group's failure to agree to a ceasefire and return its hostages. 

In a video statement released Thursday, he criticized U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney after all three countries issued a joint statement demanding that Israel end its military campaign in Gaza.

Netanyahu said Hamas does not want a Palestinian state; rather, the terror group wants the destruction of the state of Israel. 

He questioned how this "simple truth evades the leaders of France, Britain, Canada and others." 

Tim McGraw reveals how Faith Hill 'saved' his life and transformed his 'wild' ways

Tim McGraw owes his life to wife Faith Hill.

During an appearance on the "Tracy Lawrence's Road House" podcast, McGraw, 58, opened up about his nearly 30-year-long marriage to Hill and explained how she managed to help the country star turn his life around. 

"I’ve been lucky. I’ve been very fortunate. First off, meeting my wife saved my life. I was a wild man," he said. "I was having fun."

"She turned my life around. I couldn’t have found a better woman. Not only beautiful and talented, but just a good, good person. And then having our daughters," McGraw, who shares Gracie, 27, Maggie, 26, and Audrey, 23, with Hill, added. "It’s life-changing. They make you a better person, and they certainly calm the demons in you."

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"[Fatherhood] changed my perspective. It changed the way I thought about what my future would be. It certainly took me out of myself," said McGraw, who's been sober since 2008 and candidly spoken in the past about how Hill supported him in quitting alcohol.

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The country music superstars met in 1994 in Nashville. They were both in relationships with other people at the time, and it wasn't until she performed as his opening act on a 1996 tour that they started dating. 

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Looking back on that time, McGraw told People, "We were young and silly and goo-goo-eyed in love."

Hill, who was engaged to record producer Scott Hendricks at the time, later opened up about getting together with McGraw, telling the publication, "If someone is going to judge my character because I was engaged to somebody and then I left him for somebody else — ‘Oh, OK, now she’s a slut and a bad person’ — I can’t control that. But I wasn’t about to let Tim slip through my hands."

McGraw, who's been open about his personal struggles throughout the years, once admitted he probably wouldn't be alive had he not crossed paths with his now-wife nearly three decades ago. 

"I guarantee you, had I not gotten married to Faith at 29 years old, A) I probably would've ran my career into the ground, and B) I would've died already with my career into the ground, one or the other, and it wouldn't have ever been where it's at now," McGraw told Apple Music host Zane Lowe in 2023, via People.

Fox News Digital's Stephanie Giang-Paunon contributed to this post. 

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