Forget, for a moment, the impact on Israel. For our own community, which says a weekly prayer for the Royal Family, this has been a deeply symbolic visit.
Our future King has trodden the same streets and inhaled the same air that so many of us do every year, in a nation with which we feel such a unique bond. He has experienced the miracle of Israel — an experience that will never leave him.
As British Jews, we have every reason to feel pride.
For Israel, too, there is a sense in which a royal visit is an appropriate way to mark its 70th birthday (however much such a visit should have taken place many years earlier).
But, for all the symbolism, William’s time in Israel has also simply been a triumph of planning and execution, seeing Israel at its diverse best — from hi-tech inventions to Netta, from footvolley on Tel Aviv beach to meetings with presidents and prime ministers.
It has been simply wonderful.
