Israelis are going to have a friend in President-elect Donald Trump the likes of which the Jewish state has “never seen before," David Friedman, Trump’s adviser on Jewish and Israeli matters, told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday.

Speaking shortly after Trump delivered his victory speech in New York, Friedman – co-chair of the President-elect’s Israel Advisory Committee - said that the hostility which existed between Washington DC and Jerusalem under President Barack Obama would completely disappear under Trump's leadership.

“The level of friendship between the US and Israel is going to grow like never before and it will be better than ever, even the way it was under Republican administrations in the past,” Friedman told the Post.

Friedman is said to be a leading candidate to become the US’s new ambassador to Israel under Trump.

According to Friedman, one of the administration’s first moves will be to follow through on a campaign promise Ivanka Trump made last month according to which her father will move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem if elected.

“It was a campaign promise and there is every intention to keep it,” Friedman said. “We are going to see a very different relationship between America and Israel in a positive way.”

One change he hinted at was the removal of the restriction on Israel not to ask the US for additional money as stipulated in the new 10-year $38-billion military aid deal signed in September.

“The hostility will be gone between Israel and the US,” he added. “We know how Obama treated the prime minister of Israel and how [Hillary] Clinton berated the prime minister…we will move forward with mutual respect and mutual love and a much better future for the US and Israel.” By YAAKOV KATZ