President Joe Biden, after a lengthy delay, has invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the United States for an official visit later this year, the White House and the prime minister’s office said.Biden had held off extending the invitation out of concern about a judicial overhaul undertaken by Netanyahu and his right-wing government and Israel’s expansion of illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.Biden extended the invitation on Monday during a phone call between the two leaders, a day before Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s visit to Washington, DC.
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