President Donald Trump said on Tuesday (November 3, 2026) that Washington is ending a 10-year security assistance accord with Israel that allowed $3.8 billion in annual assistance to its ally until 2028. U.S.
Mr. Since its founding in 1948, Israel has received more than $300 billion, adjusted for inflation, in U.S. economic and military assistance, according to the Council on Foreign Relations, far more than any other country since 1946.
Trump said Israel was “fine” with him ending the assistance, which began in 2019 and was signed under his predecessor, Barack Obama, three years earlier. “We’ll help Israel if they need it,” Mr. Trump added in an interview on “Fox and Friends,” saying that he had agreed with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to cut the assistance. The Israeli premier has said he wanted to end Israel’s reliance on U.S. support.
Netanyahu must go. Tuesday’s (November 3, 2026) announcement was nonetheless met with backlash from Israeli opposition candidate Gadi Eisenkot, who said it showed that Mr.
“The fact that Israel’s defense establishment is learning of a shift in our strategic relationship through the media, at the same time as the Israeli public, shows just how dangerous Benjamin Netanyahu’s conduct is,” Mr. Eisenkot said in a statement. “Why should we suffer the slings from lunatics like an El-Sayed when they don’t need it?” he said on Fox , referring to Israel and the assistance.
