Earlier in the day Trump admonished Israel with an obscenity in an extraordinary outburst at an ally whose air war he had joined two days before by dropping massive bunker-buster bombs on Iran’s underground nuclear sites.

“Honestly, I don’t care that much about what Trump said about Israel. At the end of the day, I think he’s the one that truly helped to bring an end to this war and that’s what’s important to me,” said Daniel Kopylkov, a 27-year-old cook.

Kopylkov was one of several people interviewed in Haifa, northern Israel, a target of Iranian missiles during the conflict. It is Israel’s third largest city after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and home to Israel’s busiest seaport and a naval base.

Historian Marc Volovici, 42, said Trump’s outburst underscored Israel’s dependence on US political, military and financial support.

“This was just a very small but significant demonstration of how Israel relies on international legitimacy, and especially (the) American one,” he said.

A 70-year-old resident identifying herself only as Esther said: “It’s like a parent scolding the child. He’s scolding us. But it’s not anything dramatically serious,” she said. “I’m not a politician, you know, I’m just feeling it like that.”

Lawyer Ephraim Glazberg, 75, expressed a similar view.

“I think it was the agony of the moment. I don’t think this is a problem,” he said.