US President Joe Biden met Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday for the first time since Israel’s prime minister returned to office, with the two leaders pledging to work together to advance the normalisation of Israel’s relations with Saudi Arabia.
The meeting took place on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, rather than Washington, more than eight months after Netanyahu returned to power, underscoring the deep friction between the pair.
Netanyahu’s far-right government and the Biden administration have clashed over the Israeli leader’s contentious judicial overhaul, his treatment of the Palestinians and opposition to US diplomacy with Iran.