Biden adviser meets Netanyahu amid unease over new government

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, centre, arrives for a weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s office in Jerusalem (Menahem Kahana/Pool Photo via AP/PA)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met US national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Thursday, the two allies’ highest level in-person talks since Israel’s most right-wing government ever took power last month.

Mr Sullivan’s visit comes amid unease in Washington over Mr Netanyahu’s policies and over several members of his ultranationalist and ultra-Orthodox governing coalition, which is already taking a hard line against the Palestinians and is expected to ramp up construction in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.