President Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid make remarks and take questions from reporters.

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President Joe Biden’s closed-door meetings with Israeli leaders on Thursday may delve into divisions over Iran and an independent Palestinian state, among other flashpoints. But in public, it was all kumbaya between Biden and new Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid. With the prime minister at his side, Biden said their meeting was a “good beginning” of what’s going to be “a long, God-willing, relationship” between the two leaders.

“I think the vast majority of the American public, not just my administration, is completely devoted to (Israel’s) security,” Biden said. The president acknowledged that a discussion took place about the possibility of an updated nuclear agreement with Iran during their private conversation.

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