TEL AVIV – Moluk Hanasab paused briefly from stuffing zucchinis when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu got his first standing ovation in his speech to the U.S. Congress on Tuesday. “Will you look at that? They are actually standing up. In the Knesset [Israeli Parliament] they spit at him, and in America he is like their god,” said Hanasab, the matron of the popular Tel Aviv Persian restaurant, Shamshiri. “He’s more popular in D.C. than he is in Jerusalem these days.”
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