(JNS) The Jewish state has no truer friend than Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the visiting U.S. lawmaker during a tête-à-tête at his office in Jerusalem on Wednesday.

“We have no better friend, and I mean it, than Senator Lindsey Graham,” Netanyahu said, according to a Prime Minister’s Office readout.

According to the PMO, Netanyahu thanked Graham for his unwavering support for Israel’s right to defend itself against terrorism, as well as his “strong stand against the scandalous accusations against Israel by the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague.”

The South Carolina Republican touched down at Ben-Gurion Airport on Tuesday for his fifth visit since Hamas’s October 7 massacre.

Graham told Netanyahu that the past seven-plus months have been “one of the most challenging times for the State of Israel since its founding. There are so many problems and challenges to overcome, but one of the problems you never have to worry about is America.

“I promise you that we will do all we can, Mr. Prime Minister, to hold the ICC to account for this outrage against the people of Israel,” he vowed.

Meanwhile, Graham described the International Court of Justice, which last week ordered the Israel Defense Forces to limit the scope of its operation in the Gaza Hamas stronghold of Rafah, as a “joke.”

“The head judge of the ICJ is a raving antisemite,” he said of Nawaf Salam, the Lebanese diplomat who presides over the world court.

Following his arrival on Tuesday, Graham joined Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana to see some of the ballistic missiles that the Iranian regime fired into Israel last month and visit the site of Hamas attacks.

“This rocket behind us is just the latest example of how the Ayatollah’s terror regime threatens world peace & destabilizes the Middle East,” tweeted Ohana, adding that with Iran on the brink of becoming a nuclear power, “the free world is fortunate to have champions” like Graham.