Editing Benjamin Netanyahu (section)

== Relations with foreign leaders ==
[[File:Putin-Netanyahu-Moscow Victory Day Parade 09-05-2018.jpg|thumb|Netanyahu with Russian president [[Vladimir Putin]] at the [[2018 Moscow Victory Day Parade]]. The two leaders have had a close relationship.]]As the longest serving prime minister of Israel for over 17 years,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Heller |first1=Aron |date=17 July 2019 |title=Netanyahu makes history as Israel's longest-serving leader |url=https://www.apnews.com/a8a9d3c598954ca6803710e375117156 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190717075053/https://www.apnews.com/a8a9d3c598954ca6803710e375117156 |archive-date=17 July 2019 |access-date=17 July 2019 |publisher=[[Associated Press]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Williams |first1=Dan |date=18 July 2019 |title=Bruised but driven, Netanyahu becomes Israel's longest-serving PM |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-netanyahu/bruised-but-driven-netanyahu-becomes-israels-longest-serving-pm-idUSKCN1UD1GV |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190718133059/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-netanyahu/bruised-but-driven-netanyahu-becomes-israels-longest-serving-pm-idUSKCN1UD1GV |archive-date=18 July 2019 |access-date=18 July 2019 |publisher=[[Reuters]]}}</ref> he developed close relationships with foreign leaders. Netanyahu has a close relationship with Hungarian prime minister [[Viktor Orbán]], their having known each other for decades due to the privileged relationship between the Likud Party and the EPP, the [[European People's Party]]. Orban particularly admired Netanyahu while he was working as finance minister, and received advice from him while Netanyahu was Finance Minister of Israel.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=44027|title=Hungarian PM: We share the same security concerns as Israel|date=21 July 2017|work=Israel Hayom}}</ref>

Netanyahu has been noted for his close and friendly relationship with former-late Italian prime minister [[Silvio Berlusconi]].<ref name="Haaretz20110614">{{cite news|first=Akiva|last=Eldar|date=14 June 2011|url=http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/netanyahu-has-joined-his-buddy-berlusconi-in-an-alliance-of-rejects-1.367604|title=Netanyahu has joined his buddy Berlusconi in an alliance of rejects|work=Haaretz}}</ref> Netanyahu has said of Berlusconi: "We are lucky that there is a leader such as yourself."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3842871,00.html|title=Netanyahu to Berlusconi: Israel lucky to have you as a friend|first=Aviad|last=Glickman|date=2 January 2010|work=Ynet}}</ref> Netanyahu has described Berlusconi as "one of the greatest friends".<ref name="Haaretz20110614"/><ref name="telegraph.co.uk">{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/7133042/Berlusconi-says-Israel-should-be-an-EU-member.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/7133042/Berlusconi-says-Israel-should-be-an-EU-member.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Berlusconi says Israel should be an EU member|work=The Telegraph|date=2 February 2010}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Netanyahu and Indian prime minister [[Narendra Modi]] developed a close relationship and [[India–Israel relations|ties between India and Israel]] increased during their rule.<ref>{{cite news |title=To India's Modi, Netanyahu remains a 'dear friend' |url=https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/to-indias-modi-netanyahu-remains-a-dear-friend-609095 |work=The Jerusalem Post |date=26 November 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=India takes strong pro-Israel stance under Modi in a departure from the past |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/31/india-pro-israel-narendra-modi-bjp-government |work=The Guardian |date=31 October 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=India's Mideast rethink: From a Palestine stamp to a 'Modi-Bibi bromance' |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/18/india-israel-modi-netanyahu-relations/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=18 November 2023}}</ref>

Netanyahu had a warm relationship and "personal friendship" with Russian President [[Vladimir Putin]].<ref>{{cite news|work=[[The Daily Beast]]|first=Noga|last=Tarnopolsky|title=With Help From Putin, Netanyahu Uses a Soldier's Remains to Boost His Election Chances|date=4 April 2019|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/with-help-from-putin-netanyahu-uses-a-soldiers-remains-to-boost-his-election-chances}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|work=[[Al-Monitor]]|date=4 April 2019|url=https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2019/04/russia-israel-syria-putin-netanyahu.html|title=Putin, Netanyahu break ground on deeper Russia-Israel engagement}}</ref> In his 2022 book, Netanyahu wrote positively about Putin and describes him as "smart, sophisticated and focused on one goal – returning Russia to its historical greatness".<ref name="Netanyahu Putin Kuleba">{{cite news |title=Ukraine's FM criticizes Israeli politicians who boasted about friendships with Putin |url=https://www.axios.com/2022/10/25/ukraine-russia-israel-netanyahu-putin-lapid-kuleba |work=[[Axios (website)|Axios]] |date=25 October 2022}}</ref> Their relationship has been strained since the start of the [[Gaza war]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Netanyahu tells Putin: Your cooperation with Iran is dangerous |url=https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-777415 |work=The Jerusalem Post |date=10 December 2023}}</ref> 
[[File:Budapeszt Spotkanie premierów państw Grupy Wyszehradzkiej (35181214174).jpg|thumb|Netanyahu with [[Viktor Orbán]] and other [[Visegrád Group|V4]] leaders at the V4-Israel summit in Budapest, Hungary on 19 July 2017]]
[[File:The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi welcomes the Prime Minister of Israel, Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu, on his arrival, at Air Force Station, Palam, in New Delhi on January 14, 2018 (4).jpg|thumb|Netanyahu and Indian prime minister [[Narendra Modi]] in New Delhi, India on 14 January 2018. The two leaders have had a close relationship.<ref>{{cite news |title=Expanded Israel-India ties start taking shape, after the Netanyahu-Modi bromance |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/expanded-israel-india-ties-start-taking-shape-after-the-netanyahu-modi-bromance/ |work=The Times of Israel |date=23 October 2021}}</ref>]]In early 2018, the Polish parliament adopted a [[Amendment to the Act on the Institute of National Remembrance|new Polish law]] criminalizing suggestions that Poles were collectively complicit in [[Holocaust]]-related or other war crimes that had been committed during [[World War II]] by the [[Axis powers]].<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/01/27/it-could-soon-be-a-crime-to-blame-poland-for-nazi-atrocities-and-israel-is-appalled/ Israel and Poland try to tamp down tensions after Poland's 'death camp' law sparks Israeli outrage], Washington Post, 28 January 2018</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-poland/israel-and-poland-clash-over-proposed-holocaust-law-idUSKBN1FH0S3|title=Israel and Poland clash over proposed Holocaust law|publisher=Reuters|date=28 January 2018|first1=Jeffrey|last1=Heller|first2=Marcin|last2=Goettig|access-date=21 March 2021}}</ref> Later that year at the Munich Security Conference, Polish prime minister [[Mateusz Morawiecki]] said "it is not going to be seen as criminal to say that there were Polish perpetrators, as there were Jewish perpetrators&nbsp;... not only German perpetrators" implicated in the Jewish Holocaust.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.securityconference.de/en/media-library/munich-security-conference-2018/video/statements-by-mateusz-morawiecki-and-sebastian-kurz/|title=Statements by Mateusz Morawiecki and Sebastian Kurz|website=www.securityconference.de|access-date=20 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180319082112/https://www.securityconference.de/en/media-library/munich-security-conference-2018/video/statements-by-mateusz-morawiecki-and-sebastian-kurz/|archive-date=19 March 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> Netanyahu called his Polish counterpart's comment "outrageous" for saying that Jews had been among the Holocaust's perpetrators.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/benjamin-netanyahu-mateusz-morawiecki-jews-perpetrators-holocaust-munich-security-conference-a8216421.html|title=Benjamin Netanyahu attacks Polish PM for saying Jews were among perpetrators of the Holocaust|work=The Independent|first=Maya|last=Oppenheim|date=18 February 2018|access-date=21 March 2021}}</ref> The resulting crisis in [[Israel–Poland relations]] was resolved in late June that year when the two prime ministers issued a joint communiqué endorsing research into the Jewish Holocaust and condemning the misnomer "[["Polish death camp" controversy|Polish concentration camps]]".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/06/27/world/europe/ap-eu-poland-holocaust-law-the-latest.html|title=The Latest: Party Head: Israel Confirms Polish View on Nazis |work=The New York Times |access-date=7 July 2018}}</ref>
[[File:2019 Jantar na Residência do Primeiro-Ministro de Israel.jpg|thumb|Netanyahu with Brazilian president [[Jair Bolsonaro]] in Jerusalem, 31 March 2019]]
According to [[Efraim Zuroff]] of the [[Simon Wiesenthal Center]], during the visit of [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] President [[Petro Poroshenko]] in Jerusalem, Netanyahu failed to publicly address [[Ukrainian decommunization laws|Ukraine's official policy]] of rehabilitating local Nazi collaborators like [[Ukrainian Insurgent Army|UPA]] leader [[Roman Shukhevych]], who had participated in the murder of Jews.<ref>{{cite news |title=Holocaust scholars worry that memory is a victim of Israel's warming ties with Eastern Europe |url=https://www.jta.org/2019/01/29/israel/holocaust-scholars-worry-that-memory-is-a-victim-of-israels-warming-ties-with-eastern-europe |publisher=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |date=29 January 2019}}</ref>

Netanyahu has developed a close relationship with Brazilian President [[Jair Bolsonaro]] following Bolsonaro's election in 2018.<ref>{{cite news|via=AP News|title=Netanyahu embraces Brazil's far-right Bolsonaro in Israel|date=31 March 2019|url=https://apnews.com/article/425afad82bd342fc931fdaf5bec7d852|first=Ilan|last=Ben Zion}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Gilban|first=Marcu|work=The Times of Israel|date=3 January 2019|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/brazil-applauds-netanyahu-bolsonaro-bromance-new-ties-with-jewish-state/|title=Brazil applauds Netanyahu-Bolsonaro bromance, new ties with Jewish states}}</ref>

Netanyahu has a good relationship with Argentinian president [[Javier Milei]], having called him a "great friend of the Jewish State", shortly after Milei started his tenure as president.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lazar |first=Berman |date=7 February 2024 |title=Netanyahu meets Argentina's new leader Milei, 'a great friend' of Israel |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/netanyahu-meets-argentinas-new-leader-milei-a-great-friend-of-israel/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240728022007/https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/netanyahu-meets-argentinas-new-leader-milei-a-great-friend-of-israel/ |archive-date=28 July 2024 |access-date=31 July 2024 |website=[[The Times of Israel]]}}</ref>

Since 2023, Netanyahu and Chinese President [[Xi Jinping]] have been engaged in diplomacy, arising due to strained ties between the US and Israel.<ref>{{Cite web |date=26 July 2023 |title=With Israeli-US ties troubled, China says Xi 'looking forward' to Netanyahu visit |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/with-israeli-us-ties-troubled-china-says-xi-looking-forward-to-netanyahu-visit/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240728052032/https://www.timesofisrael.com/with-israeli-us-ties-troubled-china-says-xi-looking-forward-to-netanyahu-visit/ |archive-date=28 July 2024 |access-date=31 July 2024 |website=[[The Times of Israel]]}}</ref> The diplomatic situation has been made complicated due to the [[Gaza war]], where China has remained neutral.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tang |first=Didi |date=15 October 2023 |title=Israel-Hamas war upends China's ambitions in the Middle East but may serve Beijing in the end |url=https://apnews.com/article/china-israel-hamas-mideast-war-arab-countries-33d78c0ad6f7cb116d87417ff81ed727 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240108140511/https://apnews.com/article/china-israel-hamas-mideast-war-arab-countries-33d78c0ad6f7cb116d87417ff81ed727 |archive-date=8 January 2024 |access-date=31 July 2024 |website=[[AP News]] |language=en}}</ref>

Netanyahu and Turkish President [[Recep Tayyip Erdoğan]] have tense relations.<ref>{{cite news |title=Netanyahu: Erdogan's 'anti-Semitic' Jibe Desecrates Memory of Holocaust |url=https://www.haaretz.com/.premium-netanyahu-erdogan-s-remarks-anti-semitic-1.5256093 |work=Haaretz |date=20 July 2019|first=Barak|last=Ravid}}</ref> In March 2019, after being denounced by Turkey as a racist for saying that Israel was the nation-state of the Jewish people only, Netanyahu called Erdoğan a dictator and mocked him for imprisoning journalists in a tweet.<ref name="AP Erdogan">{{cite news |url=https://www.apnews.com/2b181366a2204e2f88547c9f747a8997 |title=Erdogan calls Netanyahu 'thief' and 'tyrant' in latest spat |publisher=Associated Press |date=13 March 2019}}</ref> In response, Erdoğan called Netanyahu as "the thief who heads Israel", referencing the ongoing corruption scandals against Netanyahu. In the same speech, Erdoğan further escalated the spat by addressing to Netanyahu directly, saying, "you are a tyrant. You are a tyrant who slaughters 7-year-old Palestinian kids",<ref name="AP Erdogan"/> and further in April 2018, calling Israel "terror state" and Netanyahu "terrorist".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/04/erdogan-calls-netanyahu-terrorist-israel-terrorist-state-180401140938404.html |title=Erdogan Calls Netanyahu "terrorist", Israel "Terrorist State" |publisher=Al Jazeera |date=1 April 2018 |access-date=21 March 2021}}</ref> Netanyahu tweeted that "Erdoğan is among Hamas's biggest supporters and there is no doubt that he well understands terrorism and slaughter."<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/246021 |title=Israel expels Turkish consul |website=[[Arutz Sheva]] |date=15 May 2018 |access-date=23 November 2019 |author1=Gary Willig |author2=Nitzan Keidar}}</ref> Netanyahu condemned the [[2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria]] and warned against ethnic cleansing of [[Kurds in Syria|Kurds]] by Turkey and its proxies.<ref name=Haaretz>{{cite news |url=https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/netanyahu-warns-against-turkey-s-ethnic-cleansing-of-brave-kurds-vows-to-assist-1.7964330 |title=Netanyahu Warns Against Turkey's Ethnic Cleansing of 'Gallant Kurds'; Vows to Assist |work=Haaretz |date=10 October 2019}}</ref>

=== US leaders ===
Netanyahu has close ties with the congressional leadership of the [[Republican Party (United States)|U.S. Republican Party]] and with its 2012 presidential candidate, [[Mitt Romney]]. He and Romney first became acquainted when both worked at the [[Boston Consulting Group]] in the mid-1970s.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Barbaro |first=Michael |date=8 April 2012 |title=A Friendship Dating to 1976 Resonates in 2012 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/us/politics/mitt-romney-and-benjamin-netanyahu-are-old-friends.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120408215016/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/us/politics/mitt-romney-and-benjamin-netanyahu-are-old-friends.html |archive-date=8 April 2012 |access-date=31 July 2024 |work=[[The New York Times]] |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

During the [[2011 G-20 Cannes summit]], then-French president [[Nicolas Sarkozy]] was overheard saying to then-U.S. president Barack Obama, "I cannot bear Netanyahu, he's a liar", and Obama reportedly responded, "You're fed up with him, but I have to deal with him every day."<ref name="YNet Overheard">{{cite news |date=7 November 2011 |title=Report: Sarkozy calls Netanyahu 'liar' |url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4145266,00.html |work=[[Ynet]]}}</ref><ref name="CBS Fed Up">{{cite news |last=Reals |first=Tucker |date=8 November 2011 |title=Sarkozy to Obama: I'm fed up with Netanyahu |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sarkozy-to-obama-im-fed-up-with-netanyahu/ |publisher=[[CBS News]]}}</ref>
[[File:Isaac Herzog at Ben Gurion Airport, October 2023 (ABG 4491).jpg|thumb|Netanyahu with [[Joe Biden]] and [[Isaac Herzog]], 18 October 2023]]
In October 2014, author [[Jeffrey Goldberg]] related a conversation in which Goldberg said that a senior official of the Obama administration called Netanyahu a "chickenshit" after Netanyahu accused U.S. president Barack Obama of "acting contrary to American values". Goldberg went on to say that Netanyahu and his cabinet were largely to blame for the tensions between the Netanyahu and Obama governments.<ref name="crisis" /> Secretary of State [[John Kerry]] phoned Netanyahu to clarify that "such statements are disgraceful, unacceptable and damaging" and "do not reflect the position of the United States".<ref>{{cite news |date=31 October 2014 |title=Kerry phones Netanyahu to apologize over 'chickenshit' slur |url=http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Kerry-phones-Netanyahu-to-apologize-over-chickenshit-slur-380442 |newspaper=The Jerusalem Post}}</ref> Netanyahu responded by saying "I'm being attacked because of my determination to defend Israel's interests. The safety of Israel is not important to those who attack me anonymously and personally."<ref>{{cite news |date=29 October 2014 |title=Netanyahu: I'm being attacked because of my determination to defend Israel's interests |url=http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Netanyahu-Im-being-attacked-because-of-my-determination-to-defend-Israels-interests-380142 |newspaper=The Jerusalem Post}}</ref> Because of evident rifts between Netanyahu and members of the Obama administration, observers have characterized the relationship as having reached a crisis level by October 2014.<ref>{{cite news |last=Keinon |first=Herb |author-link=Herb Keinon |date=27 October 2014 |title=Israelis more likely to blame Obama, not Benjamin Netanyahu, for 'crisis' in ties with US |url=http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Analysis-Israelis-more-likely-to-blame-Obama-not-Netanyahu-for-crisis-in-ties-with-US-379911 |access-date=28 January 2015 |newspaper=The Jerusalem Post}}</ref><ref name="crisis" /> The relationship between Netanyahu and the Obama administration had become problematic enough that Goldberg reported in November 2014 that his conversations with Netanyahu and other Israeli officials indicated that Israel would wait until a new U.S. president is elected before attempting to repair the relationship with the White House. According to [[Alon Pinkas]], a former diplomat and adviser to Israeli prime ministers, "Netanyahu's self-righteousness that this resolution is going to be changed or reversed by Trump is totally unfounded."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Eglash |first1=Ruth |date=25 December 2016 |title=Netanyahu summons U.S. envoy over anti-settlement resolution adopted by U.N. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/netanyahu-reprimands-nations-that-supported-un-settlement-resolution/2016/12/25/0519946f-3cdc-4e0c-96b3-a9926750dae0_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_israelun-756am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory |access-date=25 December 2016 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref>

On 23 December 2016, the [[United Nations Security Council]] passed [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334|a resolution]] calling for an end to [[Israeli settlement]]s.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cortellessa |first=Eric |date=23 December 2016 |title=Choosing not to veto, Obama lets anti-settlement resolution pass at UN Security Council |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/choosing-not-to-veto-obama-lets-anti-settlement-resolution-pass-at-un-security-council/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161223224737/http://www.timesofisrael.com/choosing-not-to-veto-obama-lets-anti-settlement-resolution-pass-at-un-security-council/ |archive-date=23 December 2016 |access-date=31 July 2024 |website=[[The Times of Israel]] |language=en}}</ref> In a departure from longstanding American policy, the U.S., under the Obama administration, abstained from the vote and did not exercise its [[United Nations Security Council veto power|veto power]]. At the behest of the Netanyahu government, President-elect Trump attempted to intercede by publicly advocating for the resolution to be vetoed, as well as successfully persuading Egypt's [[Abdel Fattah el-Sisi]] to temporarily withdraw it from consideration.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Baker |first1=Peter |date=23 December 2016 |title=For Obama and Netanyahu, a Final Clash After Years of Conflict |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/23/world/middleeast/israel-benjamin-netanyahu-barack-obama.html?src=me |access-date=25 December 2016 |newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> The resolution was then "proposed again by [[Malaysia]], [[New Zealand]], [[Senegal]] and [[Venezuela]]"&nbsp;– and passed 14 to 0. Netanyahu's office alleged that "the Obama administration not only failed to protect Israel against this gang-up at the UN, it colluded with it behind the scenes", adding: "Israel looks forward to working with President-elect Trump and with all our friends in Congress, Republicans and Democrats alike, to negate the harmful effects of this absurd resolution."<ref>{{cite news |date=23 December 2016 |title=Egypt: Trump convinced Sisi to withdraw UN resolution |url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/12/egypt-trump-sisi-resolution-israel-settlements-161223064418355.html |access-date=23 December 2016 |publisher=[[Al Jazeera Arabic|Al Jazeera]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=23 December 2016 |title=Egypt delays UN motion on Israel as Trump intervenes |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-38412079 |access-date=23 December 2016 |publisher=BBC News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=23 December 2016 |title=Israeli settlements: UN Security Council calls for an end |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-38421026 |access-date=23 December 2016 |publisher=BBC News}}</ref>

[[File: President Trump and The First Lady Participate in an Abraham Accords Signing Ceremony (50346326831).jpg |thumb|left|Netanyahu and [[Donald Trump]] during the signing of the [[Abraham Accords]] on 15 September 2020]]Netanyahu and U.S. president [[Donald Trump]] have known each other for many years.<ref>{{cite news |last=Dearden |first=Lizzie |date=11 November 2016 |title=Donald Trump invites Benjamin Netanyahu to US after Israeli PM congratulates 'true friend of Israel' |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/donald-trump-israel-palestinians-benjamin-netanyahu-invite-meeting-settlements-jerusalem-capital-a7409701.html |work=The Independent}}</ref> Netanyahu had been a friend of Donald Trump's father, [[Fred Trump|Fred]], when Netanyahu lived in New York during the 1980s, serving as UN ambassador.<ref name="nymag.com" /> In 2013, Trump made a video endorsing Netanyahu during the [[2013 Israeli legislative election|Israeli elections]] saying, "vote for Benjamin – terrific guy, terrific leader, great for Israel". In June 2019, Netanyahu officially renamed a [[Trump Heights|settlement]] in the disputed [[Golan Heights]] after Donald Trump.<ref>{{cite news |date=16 June 2019 |title=Golan Heights: Israel unveils 'Trump Heights' settlement |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-48656431 |publisher=BBC News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=17 June 2019 |title=Israel announces new Golan Heights settlement named 'Trump Heights' |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/17/politics/trump-heights-golan-settlement-us-israel-scli-intl/index.html |work=CNN}}</ref> However, Trump aide [[Jared Kushner]] has claimed that in January 2020, Trump became frustrated with Netanyahu's rhetoric regarding annexation of the Jordan Valley, and considered endorsing his political opponent, [[Benny Gantz]].<ref>{{cite web |date=August 2022 |title=Trump wanted to endorse Netanyahu's rival ahead of March 2020 election, Kushner says in book |url=https://www.axios.com/2022/08/01/trump-netanyahu-kushner-book-gantz}}</ref> Following Netanyahu's congratulations for [[Joe Biden]] after the [[2020 U.S. presidential election]], the relationship deteriorated, with Trump accusing him of disloyalty and stating Netanyahu had "made a terrible mistake".<ref>{{cite web |date=10 December 2021 |title=Trump accuses Netanyahu of disloyalty: "F*** him" |url=https://www.axios.com/2021/12/10/trump-netanyahu-disloyalty-fuck-him}}</ref>

U.S. president [[Joe Biden]], a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]], has been friendly with Netanyahu for many years. In November 2011<ref>{{cite web |last=Bernstein |first=Jared |date=18 November 2011 |title=In the Heart of Motor City, Vice President Biden Addresses Yeshiva Beth Yehuda |url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2011/11/18/heart-motor-city-vice-president-biden-addresses-yeshiva-beth-yehuda |access-date=17 March 2013 |work=[[whitehouse.gov]] |via=[[NARA|National Archives]]}}</ref> and in the [[United States presidential election debates, 2012|2012 U.S. vice presidential debate]],<ref>{{cite news |date=11 October 2012 |title=Transcript And Audio: Vice Presidential Debate |url=https://www.npr.org/2012/10/11/162754053/transcript-biden-ryan-vice-presidential-debate |access-date=17 March 2013 |publisher=NPR}}</ref> Biden stated that the relationship has lasted for 39 years. In March 2010, Netanyahu remarked during a joint statement with Biden during his visit of Israel<ref>{{cite web |date=9 March 2010 |title=Remarks by Vice President Biden and Prime Minister Netanyahu in a Joint Statement to the Press |url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/remarks-vice-president-biden-and-prime-minister-netanyahu-a-joint-statement-press |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170123233820/https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/remarks-vice-president-biden-and-prime-minister-netanyahu-a-joint-statement-press |archive-date=23 January 2017 |access-date=17 March 2013 |work=[[whitehouse.gov]] |via=[[NARA|National Archives]]}}</ref> that their friendship had started almost three decades prior.