Or did he view the prospect of joining forces with Ohtani, the consensus best player in the world, as another boon to his career?

“The forces that made it hard to do things new and different in the past are still with us — insurance and mortgage underwriting standards, planning and zoning, risk-averse developers, NIMBYism,” Falletta said.

In the event, the combined forces of Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter denied him a single Moon Man trophy – but the singer left with something much more valuable.

Border and immigration forces had raised objections to the man entering Israel while he was at Ben Gurion Airport, but the Shin Bet security service approved his entry, Israel's Interior Minister Moshe Arbel said.

Israeli forces should also withdraw from densely populated areas of Gaza, displaced Palestinians should be allowed to begin returning to their homes, and hundreds of aid lorries should be allowed into the territory each day.