The White House has called Trump’s visit a “historic return to the Middle East” but Israel is once again not on the itinerary.

This moment is testing the relationship of the two men, both of whom are politically divisive, fiercely combative and have outsize egos.

Fear is mounting in Israel that US President Donald Trump is building a Middle East policy that increasingly excludes Israel, as signs emerge that even the country’s most important allies are growing frustrated with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ultranationalist government.

The Washington Post reported that Donald Trump soured on Waltz over Waltz's support for an Israeli attack on Iran.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on Tuesday, declared that the country’s military will intensify its operations in Gaza “with full force” in the coming days, signaling a major escalation in the conflict despite ongoing ceasefire negotiations and the recent release of a United States-Israeli hostage,

Trump is clearly distancing himself from Netanyahu—and moving the United States away from Israel’s preferred maximalist policies toward Iran and the Middle East as a whole.

Israeli prime minister boasts to parliamentary committee that the army is 'destroying more and more homes' to force people to leave

Ahead of Trump’s trip to the Middle East, Israeli headlines rang alarm bells, while experts say the relationship remains strong