Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett congratulated the Iranian New Year Noruz through a video message sent to Iran International wishing peace and prosperity.

Bennett praised the centuries-old friendship between Jews and Iranians and expressed hope that in a near future the two people “can restore that relationship,” and added that “We seek peace, and we hope, we wish that the Iranian people will have prosperity.”

Bennett went on to say that Israel knows the vast majority of Iranians oppose the policies of “the ayatollah regime”, which spends money on “missiles, terror” rather than on their children and on education.

“I hope that in a short period of time, inshallah (God willing) we will have peace,” Bennett said and concluded his message with words in Persian marking Noruz (Nowruz).