Benjamin Netanyahu
“I’m controlling the government, and I’m responsible for its policies, and the policies are sensible, and responsible, and continue to be that,” says the Israeli premier.
The leaders also discussed the need to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons and opportunities for expanding the “cycle of peace.”
The proposed amendment is meant to reverse the recent Supreme Court ruling forcing the Shas leader from the Cabinet.
The U.S. secretary of state expressed Washington’s “ironclad” commitment to Israeli security.
The two leaders “sharply” condemned Iran’s military support for Russia, which has resulted in the harming of civilians in Ukraine.
The new policy will be applied to the home of 13-year-old Palestinian Muhammad Aliyat, who shot and seriously wounded a father and son in Jerusalem on Saturday.
The government will decide “soon” on steps to strengthen settlement in Judea and Samaria, “to make it clear to the terrorists who seek to uproot us from our land that we are here to stay,” says the Israeli premier.
The Israeli prime minister vows to act decisively following two attacks in Jerusalem over Shabbat.
“The president made clear that this was an attack against the civilized world,” said a White House readout of the conversation.
“We have built up a powerful state that will not allow our enemies to inflict the very pain, suffering and devastating loss our people experienced during the Holocaust,” says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The reforms “will restore Israel to the legal situation of most of the leading democracies in the world, where it had been for 50 years,” says the Israeli premier.
“Israel welcomes the deepening cooperation with our greatest ally,” said the prime minister.
