Benjamin Netanyahu has posted an AI image of himself presenting Donald Trump with a Nobel Peace Prize medallion as the judges prepare to announce if the US president has won the award.
The image, posted on the Israeli prime minister’s X account, shows Trump lifting his hands in the air as he sports an oversized medal and is showered in confetti in front of a cheering crowd waving Israeli flags.
The US president is stood under a banner reading ‘peace through strength.’
‘Give [Donald Trump] the Nobel Peace Prize — he deserves it,’ the post is captioned.
It comes amid mounting speculation that the US president will be awarded the prize after the Israeli government approved his ceasefire and hostage deal with Hamas, following the two-year anniversary of the October 7 massacre.
Trump announced on Wednesday that Israel and Hamas had agreed to the first phase of a ceasefire, after days of indirect talks in Egypt.
Netanyahu’s office announced on Thursday that it had given its final approval to back the agreement after 734 days of war.
The Israeli Prime Minister’s office said in a statement: ‘The government has just now approved the framework for the release of all of the hostages – the living and the deceased.’
Benjamin Netanyahu has posted an AI image of himself presenting Donald Trump with a Nobel Peace Prize medallion
It came despite fierce opposition from Israel’s national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.
Trump has consistently said that he deserves for the award, while families of hostages have urged the Norwegian Nobel Committee to hand it to him.
The US president says he deserves it for his role in ending the Israel-Gaza conflict as well as conflict between Cambodia-Thailand, Kosovo-Serbia, Congo-Rwanda, Pakistan-India, Egypt-Ethiopia and Armenia-Azerbaijan.
Experts say the committee typically focuses on the durability of peace, the promotion of international fraternity and the quiet work of institutions that strengthen those goals.
There has been persistent speculation ahead of the announcement about the possibility of the prize going to U.S. President Donald Trump, fueled in part by the president himself.
But longtime Nobel watchers say his chances remain remote despite notable foreign policy interventions for which he has taken personal credit.
Last year’s award went to Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of Japanese atomic bombing survivors who have worked for decades to maintain a taboo around the use of nuclear weapons.
The peace prize is the only one of the annual Nobel prizes to be awarded in Oslo, Norway.
Four of the other prizes have already been awarded in the Swedish capital, Stockholm this week – in medicine on Monday, physics on Tuesday, chemistry on Wednesday and literature on Thursday. The winner of the prize in economics will be announced on Monday.
