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FILE - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, poses for a picture with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb. 15, 2017. Schumer is calling on Israel to hold new elections. Schumer says he believes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has “lost his way” amid the Israeli bombardment of Gaza and a growing humanitarian crisis there. Schumer is the first Jewish majority leader in the Senate and the highest-ranking Jewish official in the U.S.. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Sen. Schumer’s undemocratic dangerous anti-Israel diatribe

By Jonathan Feldstein – Special to Higher Ground

President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign rally March 9, 2024, in Atlanta. Biden has stepped up public pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government, but despite his increasing public frustration, Israeli officials and Middle East analysts don't see signs that Biden can push Israel to fundamentally alter how it's prosecuting the conflict. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Biden cajoles Netanyahu with tough talk, humanitarian concerns but Israeli PM remains dug in

By Aamer Madhani and Tia Goldenberg and Zeke Miller - Associated Press

Israeli troops move near the Gaza Strip border in southern Israel, Monday, March 4, 2024. The army is battling Palestinian militants across Gaza in the war ignited by Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel. Israel can either try to annihilate Hamas, which would mean almost certain death for the estimated 100 hostages still held in Gaza, or it can cut a deal that would allow the militants to claim a historic victory. Either outcome would be excruciating for Israelis. And either might be seen as acceptable by Hamas, which valorizes martyrdom. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, File)

Hostage crisis poses dilemma for Israel and offers a path to victory for Hamas

By Joseph Krauss - Associated Press

Israeli soldiers guard a crater-like hole giving way to a small tunnel entrance in UNRWA compound where the military discovered tunnels underneath the main headquarters of the U.N. agency that the military says Hamas militants used to attack its forces during a ground operation in Gaza, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. The Israeli military says it has discovered tunnels underneath the main headquarters of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees in Gaza City, alleging that Hamas militants used the space as an electrical supply room. The unveiling of the tunnels marked the latest chapter in Israel's campaign against the embattled agency, which it accuses of collaborating with Hamas. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Biden faces pressure to cut funding for U.N. relief agency after Hamas data center found

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, centre, greets soldiers as he visits the Gaza Strip, where he received security briefings with commanders and soldiers and visited one of the tunnels that has been revealed, on Sunday Nov. 26, 2023. (Avi Ohayon/GPO/Handout via AP)

War threatens to end Netanyahu power; Israelis fed up with divisiveness, defiance of accountability

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A woman, with a photograph of a child who was abducted during the unprecedented Hamas attack on Israel, hands out yellow ribbons to passing drivers in central Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023. Yellow ribbons is the symbol for those who are actively asking for the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Many Israelis are furious at their government’s chaotic recovery efforts after Hamas attack

By Ravi Nessman and Amy Teibel - Associated Press

Israelis attend a demonstration calling for the release of abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, July 22, 2008, in Tel Aviv, Israel. Hamas militants seized Shalit in a cross-border raid on June 25, 2006, killing two other members of his tank crew. Hamas' 2006 seizure of Shalit consumed Israeli society for years — a national obsession that prompted Israel to heavily bombard the Gaza Strip and ultimately release over 1,000 Palestinian prisoners, many of whom had been convicted of deadly attacks on Israelis, in exchange for Shalit’s freedom. This time, Gaza’s Hamas rulers have abducted dozens of Israeli civilians and soldiers as part of a multipronged, shock attack. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)

Israeli hostage crisis in Hamas-ruled Gaza becomes a political trap for Netanyahu

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks about the September jobs report, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Friday, Oct. 6, 2023, in Washington. Biden says that he could potentially meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of next month’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco. Biden told reporters at the White House on Friday that a meeting has not yet been set up “but it is a possibility.” (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden ready to offer ‘all means of appropriate support’ to Israel following Hamas attacks

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

Campaign posters for far-right Israeli lawmaker Bezalel Smotrich, now the Minister of Finance, is strung across a road sign marking an entrance to an area under Palestinian control, near the West Bank town of Nablus, Sunday, Oct. 16, 2022. Smotrich assumed new powers from the military over the occupied territory this year. As the first minister to oversee civilian life in the West Bank, his role amounts to a recognition that Israel's occupation is not temporary, but permanent, observers say. (AP Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo, File)

Israel’s finance minister now governs the West Bank. Critics see steps toward permanent control

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

Tamir Pardo, former head of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, poses for a photograph in Herzliya, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023. They have contended with bloody uprisings, destabilizing wars and even the assassination of a prime minister. But for many of Israel's top former security chiefs, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government’s policies are the biggest threat yet to the country’s future. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Former leaders of Israel’s security services are speaking out against Netanyahu’s policies

By Tia Goldenberg - Associated Press

Israeli police use a water cannon to disperse demonstrators blocking a highway leading to Jerusalem during a protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government to overhaul the judicial system, Tuesday, July 11, 2023. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's parliamentary coalition has given initial approval to a contentious bill to limit the Supreme Court's oversight powers. With the vote early Tuesday, Netanyahu pressed forward with a judicial overhaul plan that has polarized the country. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Israelis block highways in nationwide protests of government’s plan to overhaul judiciary

By Ilan Ben Zion - Associated Press

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu enters the Knesset, Israel's parliament in Jerusalem, Tuesday, May 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Israel’s Netanyahu and allies pass new budget with sweeping grants for settlements, ultra-Orthodox

By Ilan Ben Zion - Associated Press

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center right, arrives at a cabinet meeting at the prime minister's office in Jerusalem Sunday, April 2, 2023. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool Photo via AP)

Israel advances national guard force for right-wing minister

By Tia Goldenberg - Associated Press

Israelis protest plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right government to overhaul the judicial system, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, April 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Israelis still protest legal overhaul despite suspension

Associated Press

Israelis opposed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's judicial overhaul plan block a highway during a protest moments after the Israeli leader fired his defense minister, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, March 26, 2023. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant had called on Netanyahu to freeze the plan, citing deep divisions in the country and turmoil in the military. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

After being fired, Israel’s defense minister caught in limbo

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

Israelis protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the Israel's judicial system, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, March 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Israelis protest legal overhaul plans for 11th week

Associated Press

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, Sunday March 5, 2023. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool via AP)

Israeli lawmakers advance bill on $270,000 gift to Netanyahu

By Tia Goldenberg - Associated Press

Israelis protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his his far-right government that his opponents say threaten democracy and freedoms, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/ Oded Balilty)

Israelis press on with protests against new government

Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, March 24, 2021, file photo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves to his supporters after the first exit poll results for the Israeli parliamentary elections at his Likud party's headquarters in Jerusalem. Netanyahu missed a midnight deadline for putting together a new coalition government. His failure to reach an agreement late Tuesday, May 4, 2021, raises the possibility that Netanyahu’s Likud party could be pushed into the opposition for the first time in 12 years. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)

Israeli coalition talks resume after PM misses deadline

By MOSHE EDRI - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, April 14, 2021, file photo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a Memorial Day ceremony at the military cemetery at Mount Herzl, Jerusalem. Netanyahu faces a midnight deadline on Tuesday, May 4, to put together a new coalition government. If he fails, he faces the possibility of leading his Likud party into the opposition for the first time in 12 years. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, Pool, File)

Israel’s Netanyahu faces midnight deadline to form a coalition

By Josef Federman - Associated Press