President Trump mostly received a warm welcome from Israeli lawmakers as he addressed them at a speech at Israel’s Knesset. However, two lawmakers were swiftly removed after protesting President Trump. Israeli lawmakers Ayman Odeh and Ofer Cassif, who are both members of the left leaning Hadash coalition were booted from the Knesset after vocally protesting President Trump while he was giving his speech. The Hill reported more details on the lawmakers being booted: President Trump’s speech at Israel’s Knesset, its parliament, was briefly interrupted by lawmakers who were expelled from the plenum after shouting slogans during Trump’s remarks. The Jerusalem Post identified those protesting as Ayman Odeh, an Arab Israeli and member of the Hadash alliance and Ofer Cassif, a far-left politician who is also a member of the Hadash coalition. Odeh held up a sign that said “Recognize Palestine,” when he was ejected from the room. He later wrote in a post on the social platform X that he is calling for recognition of a Palestinian state as “the simplest demand, a demand that the entire international community agrees on… There are two peoples here, and neither is going anywhere.,” the post read in Hebrew, as translated by X. Cassif also posted on X that their protest was “to demand justice,” accusing the Israeli government of occupation and apartheid against Palestinians. “Refuse to be occupiers! Resist the government of bloodshed!” read that post, also translated from Hebrew. Watch here: Protest erupts as Trump delivers his remarks. A member of the Knesset yells at Trump. pic.twitter.com/ZKrMSztzjC — Ron Smith (@Ronxyz00) October 13, 2025 Left Wing Israeli Knesset members tried to protest Trump’s speech and were quickly and forcibly removed: TRUMP: “That was VERY efficient!” pic.twitter.com/SPaqn0kjHF — Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) October 13, 2025 Besides these two pesky lawmakers, Trump was warmly received by the Knesset with cheers: Trump greeted by huge standing ovation and Trump hats at the Knesset pic.twitter.com/vaXAeXnO25 — New York Post (@nypost) October 13, 2025 ABC News reported more on Trump’s address at the Knesset: In a speech to Israel’s parliament on a day when the country’s living 20 hostages were released as part a ceasefire agreement he helped broker, President Donald Trump told the Knesset, “This is the historic dawn of a new Middle East.” “This will be the remembered as the moment that everything began to change,” Trump said in an hourlong address in which he touted his administration’s role in the deal and said it marked the end of a “painful nightmare” for Israel and Palestinians. The remaining living hostages taken by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, were returned to Israel on Monday, officials said, and Palestinian prisoners were freed in the first phase of the ceasefire deal aimed at putting a permanent end to the fighting. “This long and difficult war has now ended,” Trump declared, though challenges remain in ensuring a lasting peace in Gaza and questions abound about what comes next, especially given the ultimate failure of a six-week hostage-for-prisoners ceasefire in January.