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Biden hasn’t called Israel’s Netanyahu yet, raising fears of a frosty four years to come
by Raf Sanchez
February 11, 2021

In his first three weeks in office, President Joe Biden has made a flurry of phone calls to American allies around the world, including the leaders of Canada, Britain, France and Japan. But one close American ally’s leader has so far been left conspicuously off the new president’s call list: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. While it is clear that Biden has his hands full with a myriad domestic challenges, every day the phone doesn’t ring adds to concerns in Israel that Netanyahu is being frozen out by the new Democratic administration because of his close ties with Donald Trump and his public antagonism of Barack Obama. The contrast between Biden and Trump is stark: Trump called Netanyahu within two days of taking office in 2017. READ MORE