Trump Reshuffles His Israel Team for a Tougher Approach

In his first term, President-elect Donald Trump managed to do something many had derided as impossible: he achieved the normalization of relations between Israel and four Muslim-majority countries: the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan (with the latter still in the process of finalizing a deal).

These agreements, known as the Abraham Accords, were all the more impressive given that they were accompanied by an extremely pro-Israel policy, including the recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and Israeli control of part of the Golan Heights.

But over the course of Trump’s latest presidential transition, it has become clear that few of the members of Trump’s original Israel team are coming back for a second go: Jared Kushner, Avi Berkowitz, Jason Greenblatt, and others who were key to Trump’s Israel policy in his first term are now completely absent from the list of appointees.

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