Share to FacebookShare to XArticle printing is available to subscribers onlyPrint in a simple, ad-free formatSubscribeComments: Zen reading is available to subscribers onlyAd-free and in a comfortable reading formatSubscribe06:03 AM • June 19 2026 IDTA visit to Israel by U.S. President Donald Trump was supposed to be the winning card for the Likud party in the fall election. In Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's fantasies, the beloved American leader would give him the kind of "endorsement" that only Trump can – with all the superlatives about Netanyahu being a "wartime prime minister, without whom Israel would have been destroyed, and that there's no one around who could match his stature. Trump would also declare President Isaac Herzog wretched and evil. In the NewsTrump's Treaty of Versailles Crowns Israel's October 7 War as a Strategic Defeat'Nobody's Born a Soldier': The Israeli Teens Who Say the Draft Is a ChoicePalestinian Head of Wisconsin's Largest Mosque Released From ICE DetentionWhite House: Vance Not Travelling for Friday's Talks With Iran 'As of Now'Four Centuries After Sabbatai Zevi, the Jewish People Have a New False MessiahRemembering and rebuilding two years laterICYMIHumiliated by Trump on the Iran Front, Netanyahu May Set the Middle East Ablaze'Once-in-a-lifetime Discovery': 1,700-year-old Roman Busts Found in IsraelTrump and Netanyahu Hurtling Toward a Rupture That Could Shock U.S.-Israel TiesNetanyahu's Mouthpieces Turn on Trump, Revealing a Deeper Israeli IngratitudeFork Found in Kitchen: Israelis Have Discovered the OccupationIran Reportedly Calls Off Missile Strikes on Israel After Trump Intervenes