He should not come without a concrete agenda for confronting Iran.

"The prime minister holds consultations on security issues from time to time with various parties, including former senior officials,” the Prime Minister's Office says in a statement.

Israel hopes to lead Assad to the conclusion that he will pay a higher price for the Iranians' continued activity in his country than he will pay for confronting them in Syria.

A report by the UNHRC's "Commission of Inquiry" finds no Palestinian terrorists or Palestinian terrorist organizations and merely describes Hamas as engaging in the “exercise of government-like functions."

Mansour Abbas also doesn't rule out joining a coalition with Religious Zionism leader Bezalel Smotrich and far-right MK Itamar Ben-Gvir.