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Breaking newsNetanyahu thanks Trump for 'bold' decision

US President Donald Trump speaks after touring the Lima Army Tank Plant at Joint Systems Manufacturing in Lima, Ohio, March 20, 2019. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Trump says time has come for US to ‘recognize Israel’s sovereignty’ over Golan

In tweet, president reverses decades of US Mideast policy to recognize Israel’s claim to the strategic plateau that it captured from Syria in 1967 Six Day War

US Senator Lindsey Graham, left, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, and US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, right, on a tour of the Golan Heights, March 11, 2019. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Officials: US announcement on Golan Heights recognition could come next week

By AP and TOI staff

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands after delivering a joint statement during their meeting in Jerusalem on March 20, 2019. (Jim Young/AFP)

Meeting Pompeo, Netanyahu calls for recognition of Israeli Golan Heights

By TOI staff and AFP

US President Donald Trump (R) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House, March 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump to host Netanyahu at White House twice next week, 2 weeks before election

By Alexander Fulbright

US President Donald Trump speaks after touring the Lima Army Tank Plant at Joint Systems Manufacturing in Lima, Ohio, March 20, 2019. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Breaking news

Trump says time has come for US to ‘recognize Israel’s sovereignty’ over Golan

In tweet, president reverses decades of US Mideast policy to recognize Israel’s claim to the strategic plateau that it captured from Syria in 1967 Six Day War

US Senator Lindsey Graham, left, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, and US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, right, on a tour of the Golan Heights, March 11, 2019. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Officials: US announcement on Golan Heights recognition could come next week

By AP and TOI staff

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands after delivering a joint statement during their meeting in Jerusalem on March 20, 2019. (Jim Young/AFP)

Meeting Pompeo, Netanyahu calls for recognition of Israeli Golan Heights

By TOI staff and AFP

US President Donald Trump (R) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House, March 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump to host Netanyahu at White House twice next week, 2 weeks before election

By Alexander Fulbright

US Senator Lindsey Graham, left, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, and US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, right, on a tour of the Golan Heights, March 11, 2019. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

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Israeli lawmakers welcome Trump’s Golan recognition as ‘historic, brave’

Michael Bachner

Center and right-wing politicians hail dramatic US announcement, but Union of Right-Wing Parties warns it shouldn’t ‘blind’ Israel in run-up to peace plan rollout

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (L) at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on March 21, 2019, during the second day of Pompeo's visit as part of his five-day regional tour of the Middle East. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

In significant first, Pompeo visits Western Wall accompanied by Netanyahu

By TOI staff and Raphael Ahren

Visit to holy site marks first time top US diplomat has gone to Jewish state’s holiest site together with senior Israeli officials

AnalysisThanks to Trump, diplomatic taboo around Western Wall comes tumbling down

By Raphael Ahren

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a meeting in Jerusalem with the Israeli and Greek prime ministers and the Cypriot president, March 20, 2019. (Jim Young/Pool/AFP)

Pompeo in Jerusalem jabs at Democrats on anti-Semitism

By AFP

Hezbollah fighters hold flags as they attend the memorial of their slain leader Sheik Abbas al-Mousawi, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike in 1992, in Tefahta village, south Lebanon, February 13, 2016. (Mohammed Zaatari/AP)

Pompeo to head to Lebanon, where Hezbollah is at peak strength

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