{"id":1655754,"date":"2025-12-31T06:20:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T11:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/?p=1655754"},"modified":"2025-12-31T17:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T22:43:13","slug":"netanyahu-attends-event-with-lawmakers-and-community-leaders-at-shul-of-bar-harbour-collins-ave-closed-near-synagogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/us-world\/netanyahu-attends-event-with-lawmakers-and-community-leaders-at-shul-of-bar-harbour-collins-ave-closed-near-synagogue\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu attends event with lawmakers and community leaders at Shul of Bar Harbour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attended an event at a synagogue in Surfside as part of his tour of South Florida, a stop that shut down part of Collins Avenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prime minister spent Wednesday morning meeting with evangelical leaders at his hotel before heading to the Shul of Bal Harbour, located at 9540 Collins Ave., to attend the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Netanyahu <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i24news.tv\/en\/news\/israel\/diplomacy-defense\/artc-netanyahu-departs-for-florida-to-meet-with-trump-in-mar-a-lago\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">met<\/a> with lawmakers, Jewish and community leaders, and local students at the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result, Collins Avenue was closed to vehicular and foot traffic between 93rd and 96th streets, with nearby streets also facing impacts, Surfside officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Street parking was already off limits at 6 a.m., as police prepared to shut down the roadway; those closures began at around 10 a.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In preparation for the road closure, Surfside officials said, trucks started to be turned around by 86th and 87th streets at around 8 a.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7Skyforce hovered above bumper-to-bumper traffic along Collins Avenue near the synagogue, late Wednesday morning. Cars were forced to turn around as the roadway remained closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some passersby who spoke with 7News were happy with Netanyahu&#8217;s appearance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Very excited to see, very nice to see him out and about this morning,&#8221; said Ben Garner. &#8220;A very exciting New Year&#8217;s Eve.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It is wonderful, it&#8217;s unbelievable, it&#8217;s a dream, and it seems like it&#8217;s going to be better for Israel ad better for Hamas,&#8221; said a man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some residents were not as happy to see the prime minister, as a group of pro Palestine supporters gathered to protest against Netanyahu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deputies broke up a small confrontation that broke out between demonstrators and supporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The high-profile visit comes just days after Netanyahu&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/politics\/during-netanyahu-visit-trump-warns-iran-of-further-us-strikes-if-it-reconstitutes-nuclear-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">meeting with President Donald Trump<\/a> at Mar-a-Lago, which has since been characterized as a strong display of unity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s very little difference in what we&#8217;re looking at and where we want to be, where we want to go,&#8221; Trump said Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During that meeting, the president vowed to rebuild Gaza &#8220;as quickly as we can,&#8221; but only if Hamas disarms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re going to be given a very short period of time to disarm, but if they don&#8217;t disarm &#8212; as they agreed to do, they agreed to it &#8212; then there&#8217;ll be hell to pay, for them, and we don&#8217;t want that,&#8221; said Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israeli officials maintained they won&#8217;t withdraw more troops from Gaza until Hamas demobilizes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump pushed back when asked whether Netanyahu is stalling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Israel&#8217;s lived up to the plan, 100%,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israeli media reported that Netanyahu is expected to fly back to Israel Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The roads around Surfside have since been reopened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attended an event at a synagogue in Surfside as part of his tour of South Florida, a stop that shut<a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/us-world\/netanyahu-attends-event-with-lawmakers-and-community-leaders-at-shul-of-bar-harbour-collins-ave-closed-near-synagogue\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104619688,"featured_media":1621527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-12-31T11:20:56Z","apple_news_api_id":"3d64dd34-fe2e-4d2a-9ee4-1ebc56e3799e","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-12-31T22:43:12Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACw==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/APWTdNP4uTSqe5B68VuN5ng","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_speedyseo_primary_category":"","_sunbeam_story_id":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1381],"tags":[1415],"coauthors":[646697817,646696945,1582],"class_list":["post-1655754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miami-dade","category-us-world","tag-video","sunbeam-copyright-default","sunbeam-location-surfside-fla-wsvn"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/250926_Benjamin_Netanyahu.jpg?quality=60&strip=color","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104619688"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1655754"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1655947,"href":"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655754\/revisions\/1655947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1621527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1655754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1655754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1655754"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1655754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}