PM Netanyahu Remarks at Conference of Presidents
(Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, this evening (Wednesday, 21 February
2018), made the following remarks at the Inbal Hotel in Jerusalem, at the
Conference of Major American Jewish Organizations Mission:

[Translated from the Hebrew]

"The Israeli intelligence services thwarted the downing of an Australian
plane, an unimaginable slaughter. This would have caused a major disruption
in global air transport and this is only one of dozens of terrorist attacks
we have foiled around the world. I think that Israeli intelligence must be
thanked for protecting not only Israelis but many civilians around the
world."