Marco Rubio, JD Vance, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner all visit Israel in campaign to enforce president’s Gaza deal

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in Jerusalem on Thursday to address issues regarding the Gaza cease-fire.

A reporter asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Vice President JD Vance during Vance's visit this week to Jerusalem whether the U.S. pressuring Israel to make a peace deal with Hamas makes it an American "vassal state or protectorate.

Netanyahu hailed Trump as “the greatest friend Israel has ever had in the White House," and he promised to work with him going forward.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance is seeking to ease concerns in Israel that the Trump administration is dictating terms to its closest ally in the Middle East.

President Trump publicly urged Israeli President Isaac Herzog to pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of his bribery charges in an off-script moment during his triumphant speech to the Knesset

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to distance himself Thursday from a Knesset vote that granted preliminary approval to a bill annexing the West Bank, after the measure drew strong condemnation from the White House.

The wording of the letter is careful in that it doesn't outright call for a pardon, but rather hints at Herzog's power to move the needle. A Sunday letter signed by several high-ranking ministers to President Isaac Herzog stressed the societal calamities brought on by the criminal corruption trial of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,