Israeli premier ‘prays daily’ for Egyptian president

Updated Wednesday, January 2, 2008 0:00 am TWN, AP

Israeli premier ‘prays daily’ for Egyptian president

JERUSALEM -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Tuesday that he is grateful for President Hosni Mubarak’s leadership of neighboring Egypt and prays for him daily, in comments apparently aimed at defusing tension between the two countries which soared after Israeli accusations that Egypt turns a blind eye at Palestinian arms smuggling into Gaza. “When I even think of how things would be if we were dealing with people other than Mubarak, well, I pray every day for his well-being and good health,” Olmert told the English language Jerusalem Post daily in a New Year interview published Tuesday.

Relations between Cairo and Jerusalem, never publicly very warm, turned chillier after Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said last week that Egypt was doing a “terrible job” preventing the flow of arms from its territory into Gaza. At the same time, Israel delivered to U.S. officials a video showing Egyptian police officers helping, or turning a blind eye toward, Gaza weapons smugglers.

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