Good morning. Welcome, Axios today. It's Friday, July 15th. I'm Nyla Boudou. Here's what

you need to know today. The rollout of a new national suicide hotline number. But first,

today's one big thing. High stakes for President Biden's midi strip.

President Biden escaped his low approval ratings here in the U.S. this week with a warm welcome

in Israel kicking off a trip to the midis to meet with nearly a dozen leaders. It's

Biden's first trip to the region since taking office after campaigning on promises like

holding Saudi Arabia accountable for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Axios' Brock revealed joins us now from Tel Aviv. Hey, Barack. Hey, Nyla. So, President

Biden actually went viral during this trip with a video from his visit to Yad Vashem,

the Holocaust Memorial. How has he been received? Well, it's Biden's 10th trip to Israel. He

knows so many people here. And a few days before he traveled to Israel and acquaintance of mine

had a conversation with him and he asked him, President, what's your goal from this trip? And he

said, you know what? I just want the Israeli people to know how much I love them. And I think

it's been achieved because from the minute he landed in Israel, like the first thing he said,

President Herzog on the term act was, oh man, I really feel at home. And then he went to Yad Vashem.

He met two Holocaust survivors and he was walking towards them and they were sitting on

chairs so they stood up and he just told them, no, no, no, sit down. And when he got to their

chairs, he went down on his knees and started talking to them. And it was really an amazing sight

when you think about it, the leader of the free world bending down to talk with two Holocaust

survivors. And it went viral on social media. And he think that basically on day one, he already

achieved what he wanted on the Israel part of this trip. You actually had a scoop on the next leg

of his trip. You've told us before about the US quietly negotiating a deal to normalize

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