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Bennett gave up Israel’s right to oppose the Iran deal publicly; he gave up the principle of a united Jerusalem; and he failed to pressure the Biden administration on funding Palestinian terrorism.

President Joe Biden attempted to reassure Israel of U.S. support on Friday morning, as he met with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett the day after 13 U.S. troops were killed in a terror attack at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Israeli Prime Minsiter Naftali Bennett will wait in Washington, DC, until Saturday night to meet with U.S. President Joe Biden, after their scheduled meeting Thursday morning was canceled due to the terror attacks against U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

The meeting between Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and President Joe Biden was scheduled to begin at 11:30 a.m., but the White House told reporters it would be delayed.

The Biden administration acknowledges a return to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran is unlikely and is open to Israeli alternatives, according to a senior member of visiting Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s entourage in Washington.

The Israeli military is working on plans to strike Iran’s nuclear program, Israel Defense Forces’ Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi told reporters.

Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Wednesday warned Iran was only two months away from obtaining a nuclear bomb, and called on the world to find a “Plan B” to stop it in time.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi invited Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Wednesday for an official visit in the next few weeks via Cairo’s spy chief, the prime minister’s office said in a statement.

Massive wildfires outside Jerusalem prompted the evacuation of several communities in the area, and caused the government to call for international aid.

Iran was behind a deadly drone attack last month on an oil tanker off the coast of Oman, a U.S Defense Department team concluded Saturday.

Following an Iranian drone attack on an Israel-operated oil tanker in international waters off the coast of Oman that left two dead last week, Iranian advocacy group Iranian Americans for Liberty released a statement blasting the Biden administration’s “weak” response and calling on the president to “get tough.”

The head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ drone command was behind the attack on the Israel-operated oil tanker off the coast of Oman, senior Israeli ministers told diplomats from U.N. Security Council member states on Wednesday.

Three terror rockets were fired into northern Israel from Lebanon on Wednesday, prompting thousands of people to take cover in bomb shelters.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Tuesday while he was rallying other countries to respond collectively to an Iranian attack on an Israeli-operated oil tanker off the coast, his country could act alone if needed.

The U.S., UK and Romania said Sunday they believed Iran carried out an attack on an Israeli-owned oil tanker off the coast of Oman on Thursday that killed a Briton and a Romanian, with the UK corroborating Israel’s claim a day earlier that there is proof of Tehran’s culpability.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday said Iran was “absolutely” to blame for an attack on an Israeli-operated ship off the coast of Oman that killed two people, adding the regime had made a “grave mistake” in doing so.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will meet with President Joe Biden next month at the White House, Israel confirmed on Monday.

Aaron Klein, senior adviser to former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, denounced ice cream makers Ben & Jerry’s boycott of Israel as “wokeness gone insane” on John Batchelor’s CBS Radio show this week.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog issued a harsh condemnation against boycotts of Israel after the ice cream makers Ben & Jerry’s announced its plans to end sales in what it termed the “Occupied Palestinian Territory,” calling them “a new kind of terrorism.”

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton Klein blasted Ben & Jerry’s ice cream company on Tuesday while calling for the removal of its kosher certification.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett told the head of Unilever, which owns Ben & Jerry’s, the latter’s decision to end sales in what it termed the “Occupied Palestinian Territory” is an “anti-Israel” move that would be fought “vigorously.”

Ben & Jerry’s ice cream company faced a wave of backlash on Monday after announcing plans to boycott Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Monday walked back comments made a day earlier calling for the “freedom of worship for Jews” at the flashpoint Temple Mount amid outcry from the Arab world.

Ben & Jerry’s ice cream company on Monday announced its plan to boycott Jewish settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, or what it termed “Occupied Palestinian Territory,” in a move that sparked outrage.

The Islamist Ra’am party, which is part of Israel’s motley ruling coalition, on Sunday joined a chorus of condemnation from the Arab and Muslim world over the ascent of hundreds of Jewish pilgrims to the Temple Mount to commemorate the Jewish fast of Tisha B’av, claiming the flashpoint site – Judaism’s holiest – is the “sole property of Muslims.”

Israel refused to let a jailed Palestinian senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terror group attend her daughter’s funeral on Tuesday, sparking outrage from leftwing groups as well as Arab Israeli lawmakers in the Knesset.

The family of slain Israeli terror victim Yehuda Guetta is slamming President Joe Biden after the U.S. criticized Israel last week for demolishing the home of terrorist Muntassir Shalabi, a Palestinian terrorist who also holds U.S. citizenship.

President Joe Biden is due to host Jordan’s King Abdullah II at the White House on July 19, marking the first time during this administration a leader from the Middle East will visit the White House.

Israel on Monday said the Pfizer vaccine was significantly less effective in preventing infections of the Delta variant but confirmed it remained highly effective in preventing serious illness.

A team of specialist search-and-rescue reservists in the Israeli military arrived on Sunday to help locate survivors and recover bodies at the site of a collapsed Florida condo building.

Honduras officially moved its embassy to Jerusalem in an inauguration ceremony attended by Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and visiting Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, becoming the fourth country to do so.

In its ongoing obsession with Adolf Eichmann, the Palestinian Authority’s official daily has extolled a man for naming his child after the infamous Nazi officer in a bid to “anger Zionism.”

Israel on Wednesday reneged on lifting certain coronavirus restrictions amid an outbreak of the Delta variant, as more than a hundred new cases per day were identified for several days in a row – a morbidity rate not seen in months.

A sabotage attempt on one of the facilities of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization failed Wednesday and there were no casualties or damage, Iranian media reported, adding the event is being investigated.

Hamas terror chief Yahya Sinwar warned United Nations envoy Tor Wennesland on Monday the terror group would resume violence if Israel failed to allow $30 million in Qatari donations to be transferred to Gaza, Israel’s public broadcaster reported.

Following the election of Iranian hardliner Ebrahim Raisi as the next Iranian president, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett warned Sunday against Iran’s “regime of executioners” obtaining a nuclear bomb, adding Raisi’s election should be a “wake up call” for western powers hoping to resuscitate the tattered nuclear deal.