Speaking at a hospital hit by an Iranian missile, the Israeli prime minister invoked ancient Persia as he hinted at a historic mission
It was in the Beersheba, about 1,000km and 2,500 years from Babylon, that Benjamin Netanyahu suggested on Thursday that the time had come for the Jews to repay their ancient debt to Cyrus the Great and bring liberation to Iran.
The Israeli prime minister had just made a tour of Soroka hospital, which a few hours earlier had sustained a direct hit from an Iranian ballistic missile on one of its buildings.
