before congress? he was clear on thanking president barack obama. at the same time we know there s a strained relationship there. herzog has said from the very beginning that he wants to improve the relationship. he wants to work with america, with european powers to improve israel s standing in term of international elections. now the second question you asked over the last few days netanyahu has been saying there s foreign money trying to influence the elections. certainly there are organizations like v15 and one voice funded by jewish american billionaires pouring money in. they would like to see a change of regime and would lie to see netanyahu out. at the same time everybody is aware that netanyahu s money in large part comes comes from america. we actually checked the state comptroller s website a few days ago. a lot of his campaign money comes from american donations. israelis here are fully aware of that. orrin lieberman live in jerusalem in advance of the election. thank