Since launching air strikes on Iran last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been working to pull President Donald Trump into the war, and sway a sceptical American public. In his daily calls and public statements,

With dramatic appeals amid failed nuclear negotiations, Bibi laid the groundwork for Trump to back a war with Iran

Not for the first time in his nearly 18 years as Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu’s government was wobbling. Israel’s opposition had called a vote last week to dissolve the parliament and — infuriated by Netanyahu’s repeated failure to pass a law exempting religious students from military service — the two ultraorthodox parties in Netanyahu’s far-right coalition were threatening to back it.