The US Senate has confirmed the Biden administration’s ambassador to Israel, a move that came after intense criticism from the White House charging Republicans with political obstruction in the face of war.
Jack Lew was confirmed by a thin margin on Tuesday but crucially saw no vocal Republican resistance to his nomination; the former Obama administration operative will be the US’s representative to Bibi Netanyahu’s government at a time when Israel is faced with responding to a brutal terrorist attack by Hamas and is the target of growing fury over the number of civilian deaths caused by its military in Gaza.
