Benjamin Netanyahu

United States President Donald Trump has issued a public endorsement of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, nine days before the country's parliamentary elections, praising him as a strong ally in the war against Iran and warning that only Netanyahu can prevent the United States from having to 'do this work ourselves.'

The US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, has denounced the settler attack that left Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine beaten and requiring surgery as a 'despicable act of terror,' while Benjamin Netanyahu faces growing international condemnation and a domestic political challenge days before elections.

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has called for the prosecution and imprisonment of those who attacked American photojournalist Heidi Levine while she covered the olive harvest in the occupied West Bank, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested Palestinians or far-left activists may have been behind the assault.