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 formatSubscribe12:32 PM • August 06 2026 IDTRon Dermer, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's close confidant and former strategic affairs minister, traveled to Washington in recent days for meetings with Trump administration officials aimed at defusing a diplomatic crisis over Israel's objections to an agreement between U.S. President Donald Trump's Gaza Board of Peace and Hamas, according to two people familiar with the matter.In the NewsPoll: Anti-Netanyahu Bloc Down Two Seats as New Centrist Party Misses ThresholdBack to the Source: Kayaks Return to Israel's North. Will Israelis?Can a Deadly Hezbollah Explosion Upend Israel-Lebanon Talks?Do Marks on Ancient Obsidian Arrowheads in Anatolia Have Meaning?Two Israeli Reservists Killed, Four Wounded in Southern Lebanon ExplosionRemembering and rebuilding two years laterICYMIThis Israeli ultra-Orthodox Feminist Activist Has a Warning for U.S. JewsHow Israel's Elbit Armed the United Arab Emirates'I Tried, I Got Crushed by AIPAC': Andy Levin Is All-in for El-SayedIt's No Wonder Israelis Want War. Violence Has Become a Source of JoyDozens of IDF Soldiers Desert Sde Teiman Base in Protest of CommanderIsrael Captured 230 Square Miles of Lebanon, Razed Villages and Built New Bases