U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio discussed tariffs with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the State Department said in a readout of their conversation on Friday, in the aftermath of a sweeping new tariff policy announced by the United States.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Jacquelyn Martin/Reuters
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio discussed tariffs with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the State Department said in a readout of their conversation on Friday, in the aftermath of a sweeping new tariff policy announced by the United States.
Unspecified Israeli goods exports to the United States, Israel's largest single trading partner, face a 17% tariff.
Rafik Halabi, head of the local council in Daliyat al-Karmel and a prominent voice within Israel's Druze community, has sent a letter to US President Donald Trump urging immediate American intervention to prevent what he describes as the starvation and extermination of the Druze population in Syria's Sweida province.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said on Wednesday that the government does not plan to deport Palestinians from Gaza, after two Israeli ministers this month floated proposals for the mass removal of Palestinians from the coastal territory.
Israel will open its first embassy in Slovenia on Wednesday in a sign of warming relations after populist Janez Jansa formed a centre-right government following elections in March.
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