VIDEO: Biden meets with Israeli President
(NBC) - President Biden receives a warm welcome as he arrived at the official residence of Israel's ceremonial president Isaac Herzog on Thursday.
He was greeted by President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal as they escorted him along a row of smiling children excitedly waving American and Israeli flags.
A loud technopop version of the Israeli song, "I was born for peace," written in 1979 to mark Israel's peace agreement with Egypt, blared in the background.
The President signed the guest book and shook Herzog's hand before noting that the President's grandfather, the late Yitzhak Halevi Herzog, was the chief Rabbi of Ireland.
Herzog was to present Mr. Biden with Israel's prestigious Presidential Medal of Honor later in the day.
