In a historic moment, President Donald Trump was the first foreign leader to be awarded the Israel Prize for “special contribution to the Jewish people” Wednesday.

Trump’s approval ratings at home may be underwater with an approval rate of 38 to 40 percent, but he enjoys strong popularity in Israel, with 83 percent of Jewish Israelis expressing confidence in him.

Education Minister Yoav Kisch had informed Trump back in December that he would be awarded the prize in the special contribution category. In a video address Tuesday ahead of the ceremony, Kisch said there wasn’t any “other person who can mark such amazing achievements and a wonderful connection to the Jewish people except for Trump at this time.”

At the ceremony, Kisch lauded Trump as a true friend of Israel who showed unswerving loyalty, “standing uncompromisingly against manifestations of antisemitism.”

“His name will be remembered in the annals of our people,” he added.

Kisch referred to Trump’s decision to join Israel in its campaign against Iran.

“In the last two months, we have all received further tangible proof of the president’s courageous and continuous stand by Israel,” he said.

Trump has undoubtedly accomplished an enormous amount of good for the Jewish people and for Israel. In his first term in office, he moved the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, something every president was bound to do once the passage of the bipartisan Jerusalem Embassy Act required the U.S. Embassy to move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem by 1999, but which they all failed to accomplish until the advent of Trump.

Another monumental achievement took the form of the Abraham Accords. The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco normalized ties with Israel, and their prosperity has exploded since, except for Sudan, which can’t figure out how to stop fighting among themselves.

Trump recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, without which Israel is indefensible.

When Trump saw that peace with the intransigent Palestinian Liberation Organization was all but impossible, he closed the PLO mission in Washington, D.C., and cut funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, infamously known as UNRWA. We now know how prescient that was, with recent evidence of UNRWA’s complicity with Hamas. He also signed into law the Counterterrorism Act and the Taylor Force Act, which cut financial aid to the Arab people in the territories.

In his second term, Trump gave Israel strong support from the United States to make significant gains in Gaza. Thanks to these military wins, Hamas became weakened to the point that it was forced into returning all the hostages, a deal that Trump administration officials negotiated, as well as a tenuous ceasefire, that, while fragile, is still holding.

Perhaps his greatest contributions by far to the security of the State of Israel were his assistance in the 12-day war with Iran and the most recent joint military campaign against the authoritarian regime.

At the awards ceremony, a video was played highlighting some of Trump’s contributions to Israel. Some of the highlights included the announcement of the Abraham Accords, the president’s Knesset speech last year, and meetings with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Trump is expected to arrive in Israel in the coming months to receive the prize in person.