Barack Obama misidentified his own committee assignment Wednesday in Israel.

The Illinois senator made the slip while defending his position on the status of Jerusalem during a press conference in Sderot.

"I continued to say that Jerusalem will be the capital of Israel," Obama said, pointing to recent legislation as proof of his support for peace in the region.

"You don't have to just look at my words, you can look at my deeds. Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, which is my committee, a bill to call for divestment from Iran, as a way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don't obtain a nuclear weapon."

Only Obama is not on the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, which Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd chairs. Obama sits on four other committees.

The Republican National Committee was quick to point out the error.

They sent around an e-mail with a link to the video of those remarks, under the headline: "Barack Obama's Gaffe Machine Rolls Into Israel."