Netanyahu warns ministers against predicting Trump’s Israel policy

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday cautioned his cabinet not to turn to the media with their predictions of what US President-elect Donald Trump’s policy will be toward Israel.

“I’m asking all the ministers and the parliamentarians to wait until the start of the new [United States] government. Let's [Israel and the US] form a new policy together through quiet and acceptable [diplomatic] channels and not through interviews with the media,” Netanyahu was quoted by the Jerusalem Post as saying.

He spoke to the ministers about his conversation Wednesday with Trump. 

“He spoke of this deep friendship for Israel that has characterized him and the team around him for many years,” Netanyahu said.

The prime minister said that his government had in the past years handled US-Israel relations wisely and responsibly and that it planned to continue in that vein in the coming years.

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