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Almost a month after taking office, US President Joe Biden spoke on the phone with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Biden told Netanyahu that he intended to strengthen the partnership between the US and Israel in every way, the White House said.
Biden emphasized the US support for the normalization of relations between Israel and Arab countries, which began under his predecessor Donald Trump.
Biden himself said in the White House that it was "a good conversation".
The Netanyahu office first issued a notice regarding the call.
It was "very warm and friendly" and lasted about an hour.
Netanyahu and Biden have agreed to work together "to further strengthen the unshakable alliance between Israel and the US."
It was about the further development of peace agreements, the threat from Iran and other regional challenges as well as the corona pandemic, it said.
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The phone call between Biden and Netanyahu came comparatively late and only after the new president had spoken to his counterparts in Russia and China, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping.
Former President Barack Obama turned on the Middle East conflict on his first full day at work in 2009 and spoke to then Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
Trump spoke to Netanyahu two days after he was sworn in, who was considered one of his closest allies and visited him in the White House just a few weeks after taking office.
Biden is known as a critic of the Israeli settlement policy that Trump's government supported.
Israel is also concerned that, unlike his predecessor, Biden might pursue a kind of appeasement policy towards Iran.