from brooklyn. he immigrated to israel in '69. my mother immigrated to israel from iraq. she came to israel. they met there. within me, i have a european side and a middle eastern side. those are two very, very important sides of my personality. i try to portray them in what i do. >> i am curious to know, in youry,you grow up speaking english, hebrew, and arabic? >> mostly hebrew. i think both of my parents wanted to raise an israeli kid that talks hebrew. that was something that was important to them. that's why they immigrated to israel. >> wonderful. believe it or not, we need to say good-bye. thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you. >> we will return in a moment to continue the conversation about the ways we care for one another and form leadership in each generation. join us in a moment back here on mosaic. >>> good morning. welcome back to mosaic. i am rabbi eric weiss. i am honored to be your host. we are in a wonderful conversation about the ways we get to know each other, ways we care for each other and how that influences leaders in the next generation. i would like to in

israel needs to protect itself from all kinds of eventualities. the iranians are now seeking to achieve territorial contiguity through iraq, through syria, through lebanonitical capital during this visit? the president's on the ground for 26 hours here. is the message to the president, hey, look, we really want to make a peace deal with the palestinians? is the message israel's under an existential threat. what is the takeaway? >> i think it's very simple. let's focus on two things. number one, the jordan valley has been the front line of israel's defense since 1967. the jordan valley is something which rabin, the man who started the whole peace process, warned in his last knesset speech israel must retain the valley. so that's our front line. we're not giving up the valley, and polls show 80% of the public want to retain the valley. and one other point. jerusalem, in an era in which holy sites are being blown up all over the middle east, in egypt, in iraq, in syria, we're going to turn over the holy sites of western civilization to mr. abbas, to hamas or isis? israel and only israel will protect jerusalem for all the great faiths. and i hope the u.s. a

they have designs to build a land corridor stretching from iran, through iraq and syria to the mediterranean. what tools are there to tackle that? israeli think we're talking about a regional picture. so in the regional picture you have to look at potential regional allies, building coalitions, deterring and so on. i think if you look at syria, the us carried out two strikes already in syria, and i think that sent a deterrent message to bashar al—assad and to those who support him, including iran. there are ways going about it, and not all of them are militarily. yes, indeed there is dialogue. today the french have come out and said, not coincidentally of this timing, that they believe in dialogue with iran. and certainly that's the view from the european union, which played a key role in negotiating the nuclear deal. could there be another way around instead of these more aggressive policies? dialogue is a tall. -- it is —— it isa —— it is a tool. but the question is, what's behind that tool? if there is a dialogue and there is also a deterrent for iran, that's one thing. if you carry a dialogue with no deterrence, then the results be

royal family as these countries from these bank accounts essentially into slush funds that go fund terrorism beating united dates, in israel, to blow up u.s. troops in iraqn. so the question becomes, we talked about this with brett. will these countries crack down not only in terms of going after the online stuff, but will they really prevent their own citizens in the richest members of their country from getting to these terror organizations and that is still a very big question about how much of this is just a show and it is a great show and how much of it will have really good action and concrete actions to follow what. elizabeth: talk about it being a show. we have been over the past 24 hours have seen a show. when we talk to her own john roberts, we've also seen a much different tone coming from this administration, a different tone that we saw here domestically especially in the campaign trail which you would expect. when we heard the president speak this morning and all those different countries that have a presence here, they were on the audience listening to every single word that came out were presidents mouth here we are not here to impose our

israel and saudi arabia and gulf region. they thought that president obama was too far toward iran. too far away from involvement in the region. in other words, pulling out of iraqck too far away by leaving syria to burn and letting everybody including saudi arabia and everybody else wage proxy wars there. this is a chance for saudi arabia to get the president to be on their side and realign the middle east in that region. >> christiane and haroon, thank you. >> you are looking at pictures in jerusalem where the president just touched down. he will get out of marine one shortly. the first foreign trip of his administration. we will keep on it coming up. iko s a new netw when i got this unlimited plan they told me they were all the same. they're not. verizon has the largest, most-reliable 4g lte network in america. it's basically made for places like this. honey, what if it was just us out here? right. so, i ordered you a car. thank you. you don't want to be out here at night 'cause of the, uh, coyotes. ok, thanks, bud. bye. be nice to have your car for some shelter. bye. when it really, really matters, you need the best network and the best unlimited. just $45 p

iraq and syria. and that also scares the israelis, and it's no coincidence that trump is going from riyadh to tele aviv to reassure them about iran. don't forget that hezbollah sits on israel's border, has a lot of rockets trained on tele aviv and could do major damage. how do you contain iran? they are clearly the victor in the first decade of the 21st century. and, you know, they are getting stronger and they are a stable country, and the middle east, saudi arabia and other gulf states are truly terrified of iran. and what can the united states do that the point, general mattis, the secretary of defense recognizes iran as a threat as well. so what we're going to have to see is what is this riyadh meeting translate to, you know, in terms of containing iran? it's unclear right now. >> but real quick, we just talked about this $110 billion deal. sometimes trump can portray deals bigger than they may truly be. he's mentioned a lot about potential for jobs here. how many jobs, you don't have to give me numbers, but how realist sick a real job creator? did you hear me, bob? >> yes, it's going to help. no, this is going to be a victory for trump. because it will bring jobs, refin

him well and iraq war veteran chris and fox news contributor navy seal, he is rob o'neill who is now a best selling author. guys, when you see the president go from saudi arabia to israel are your thoughts as he reaches out to the -- our greatest ally in the region but at the same time tries to reach out to an arab ally? >> my initial thought right there is the first president to leave from saudi arabia directly to israel. that's almost saying israel is a real state, it's a real country. and that tells me they are working on an alliance together that being saudi arabia and israel who haven't gotten along historically but have done stuff together. brian: also the word historic works. you start in saudi arabia that sends a message. right to israel. first time ever president has gone to israel on first visit overseas. pete: complete reversal of the last 8 years of barack obama. addressed a relationship that barack obama built with iran for the iran deal, which was an affront to the sunni arabs in, and and affront to israel. both face very real threats from iran. rejection of that policy and reassertion of american leadership. he stood in front of that crowd in saudi arabi