Israel expected to urge his American counterpart to take a hard-line stance on Iran

Bennett, elected to office two months ago, is making his first visit to Washington this week. Before he left Israel, he reiterated that he would push President Joe Biden on his stance on Iran.

Shortly before his departure for the U.S. on Tuesday, Bennett told reporters he hoped to bring “a new spirit of cooperation” from Israel to the U.S.

Earlier this year, just weeks after Bennett took office, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met in Rome. Before their meeting, Lapid acknowledged that “in the past few years, mistakes were made” in relations between the two countries, with Netanyahu closely aligning himself with Trump and Republicans in the U.S. Congress, at times to the exclusion of close ties with Democratic officials.