CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, fresh off a pair of meetings with President Donald Trump during a four-day stay in Washington D.C., visited Monticello on Thursday evening, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation confirmed to Cville Right Now.
“We received a request for a private tour for Prime Minister Netanyahu and his wife, which we provided this evening,” Foundation spokesperson Jennifer Lyon wrote in an email.
Earlier in the day, Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, attended a memorial service for two Israeli Embassy staffers who were fatally shot on May 22 outside of the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington D.C., according to the Associated Press.
Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson, America’s third president and the author of the Declaration of Independence, is one of the Charlottesville area’s premier tourist attractions. Construction on the house, designed by Jefferson, began in 1769.