Tel Aviv, Sept. 14 -- After praying together at Jerusalem's Western Wall, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio toured the nearby underground tunnels, with Netanyahu hailing the US-Israel alliance as "durable as the stones" of the holy site, The Times of Israel reported.

The pair, joined by US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee and the three officials' wives, were guided by Suli Eliav, CEO of the Western Wall Heritage Center, as per The Times of Israel.

"I think [Rubio's] visit here is a testimony to the durability, the strength of the Israeli-American alliance, that is as strong and durable as the stones of the Western Wall that we just touched," Netanyahu told reporters at the site after the t...