Israel’s New Foreign Minister Yair Lapid Seeks to Repair Relations With US
Keren Setton
06/16/2021
What is needed is better ties with the Democratic Party, and mending the rift with American Jewry, but it won’t be easy
Israel’s newly instated Foreign Minister Yair Lapid vowed to repair ties with the Democratic Party in the United States, after years in which former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu almost exclusively cultivated warm ties with the Republican Party.
“The management of the relationship with the Democratic Party in the United States was careless and dangerous. I’ve warned against it more than once, but the outgoing government took a terrible gamble, reckless and dangerous, to focus exclusively on the Republican Party and abandon Israel’s bipartisan standing,” Lapid said during the hand-over ceremony at the ministry of foreign affairs earlier this week.