Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Israel will not let Iran obtain a nuclear weapon, as Tehran says it will break the uranium stockpile limit set by the nuclear deal with world powers in the next 10 days.
“Today Iran threatened to enrich its uranium beyond the limits of the nuclear deal — this does not surprise us,” says Netanyahu. “In the event it acts upon its threats and violates the nuclear deal, the international community must immediately impose the sanctions that were set previously. Israel will not allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon.”
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MK Yair Lapid met secretly with former Prime Minister and Defense Minister Ehud Barak,  reports.
It is possible that Barak is examining the possibility of cooperation with Lapid ahead of the elections for the 22nd Knesset.
On Friday, it was reported that Barak is considering forming a new party that will include prominent figures from the left, such as Tzipi Livni, Dan Meridor and former Deputy IDF Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. (res.) Yair Golan.
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Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Sunday met with a delegation from the Conference of Imams in France, as well as social activists from the French and Belgian Muslim communities.
The visit was an initiative of pro-Israel group the European Leadership Network, and is intended to promote interfaith understanding and coexistence.
Rivlin expressed Israel’s strong commitment to freedom of religion, and noted the rise of antisemitism around the world, saying, “We have to work together. We must fight antisemitism.”
“Judaism has never been at war with Islam,” he said. “Judaism and Islam are sister religions, and we should relate to each other in this way.”

U.S. President Donald Trump’s Special Envoy to the Middle East Jason Greenblatt on Sunday expressed his support for recent statements by U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman in favor of Israeli annexation of some parts of Yehuda and Shomron.
“I will let David’s comments stand for themselves,” Greenblatt said during the annual Jerusalem Post conference in New York, when asked about an interview with Friedman published in The New York Times last Saturday. “I think he said them elegantly and I support his comments.”
In the article, Friedman said “under certain circumstances, I think Israel has the right to retain some, but unlikely all, of the West Bank.”

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg says if he won he wouldn’t reverse President Trump’s controversial decision to move the U.S. embassy in Israel back to Tel Aviv from Yerushalayim.
“I think what’s done is done,” Buttigieg told “Axios on HBO” in a clip shared Sunday. “We need a big picture strategy on the Middle East, I don’t know that we’d gain much by moving it to Tel Aviv.”
Despite saying he wouldn’t reverse Trump’s actions, Buttigieg said that “doesn’t mean he did the right thing.”
“Here’s the problem with what he did,” Buttigieg said. “If you’re going to make a concession like that…you don’t do that without getting some kind of concession.”

President Donald Trump’s campaign is cutting ties with three members of his polling team after grim numbers showing him trailing former vice president Joe Biden in several battleground states were leaked to the media last week, according to several officials with knowledge of the matter.
Days ahead of Trump’s official launch of his reelection bid on Tuesday, the campaign is severing its relationship with Brett Loyd, Mike Baselice and Adam Geller while keeping pollsters Tony Fabrizio and John McLaughlin.
The officials, like others interviewed, spoke on the condition of anonymity to freely discuss internal moves. The Trump campaign declined to comment. NBC first reported on the campaign’s actions.

Trump challenges Biden’s mental fitness.
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The United States is stepping up digital incursions into Russia’s electric power grid in a warning to President Vladimir V. Putin and a demonstration of how the Trump administration is using new authorities to deploy cybertools more aggressively, current and former government officials said.
Advocates of the more aggressive strategy said it was long overdue, after years of public warnings from the Department of Homeland Security and the F.B.I. that Russia has inserted malware that could sabotage American power plants, oil and gas pipelines, or water supplies in any future conflict with the United States.
The new tactic also carries significant risk of escalating the daily digital Cold War between Washington and Moscow.

A Florida man was arrested for threatening to kill minorities, including Jews.
Joshua John Leff, 40, was arrested at his home in Fort Myers and charged with intimidation, sending written threats to kill and possession of a weapon by a convicted felon.
In his posts he praised several mass shooters, including John T. Earnest, the 19-year-old gunman accused of killing one and injuring three inside a synagogue in Poway, California in April. He said he wished they had killed more people. Leff is being held in Lee County Jail on $1 million bond.
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President Donald Trump thanked Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday, hours after the Israeli cabinet formally approved the establishment of a new town in the Golan Heights named after the president.
“Thank you PM Netanyahu and the State of Israel for this great honor!” Trump tweeted.
The president’s tweet attached comments by US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, who attended the special cabinet meeting and naming ceremony Sunday afternoon.
“A great day on the Golan. PM Netanyahu and I had the honor to dedicate ‘Trump Heights’ — first time Israel has dedicated a village in honor of a sitting president since Harry Truman (1949). Happy Birthday Mr. President!!”
President Trump turned 73 on Friday.