The inner cabinet discussed developments with Hezbollah late into the night, with much less focus on Iran. Israeli officials believe Iran has been significantly weakened and is unlikely to come under attack again soon. Senior Israeli official: “The new situation with Lebanon is terrible.”

Trump updated regional leaders that Iran has pledged to hand over its highly enriched uranium to the US and remove it from Iran. Israeli source says: "The significance of reaching an agreement under these terms is the start of the countdown to the next war. It may take a few years, but it will come."

In a statement issued after talks in the Oval Office at the White House, Trump said a series of leaders from the Middle East and the Muslim world had taken part. According to him, "the final aspects and details of the agreement are now being discussed and will be announced shortly." Pakistani Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar, who arrived in Tehran over the weekend with a Pakistani delegation, said the conversation showed that "a positive and sustainable outcome is within reach."

Following reports of progress in talks in Pakistan, concern is mounting in Israel, as the Israeli leadership has been almost completely cut off from updates on what is happening behind closed doors in the critical negotiations. Security officials and coalition faction leaders took part in the meeting.

The details of the emerging deal have not yet been published, and the world is focused mainly on the future of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. In Israel, however, the main concern is the nuclear issue. Israel is still maintaining readiness for the possibility that the talks will collapse and the fighting will resume, but the prevailing assessment is that the chances of that happening, which looked highly significant in the middle of last week, have diminished considerably.