Abbas to Meet Hollande in Coming Weeks

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement at Sunday’s cabinet meeting that he wanted to “make it unequivocally clear that our position has always been, and will always be, that the US Embassy needs to be here, in Jerusalem.” However, did not make a specific appeal to US President Donald Trump to move forward with the idea. In other political news, Netanyahu received enthusiastic support at a Likud faction convention over the weekend.

The Likudiada convention, held at the Club Hotel in Eilat, brought together legions of the party faithful in what was described by participants as a “huge party” to celebrate the success of the party and voice support for it leader.

“Our political enemies understand that the people have chosen Likud time and time again, and so they’ve given up on replacing us at the ballot box, and so elements in the press and on the Left are using cheap and illegitimate tools to topple the government and topple Netanyahu,” Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev said during her address to the convention. “The prime minister and his family have undergone a public and media lynching by the media and elements on the Left, and this is an ugly phenomenon.”