{"id":519817,"date":"2026-07-01T11:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T11:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/519817\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T11:13:09","slug":"netanyahu-wants-to-phase-out-us-aid-to-israel-labels-it-welfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/519817\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu wants to phase out US aid to Israel, labels it ‘welfare’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said US financial assistance to Israel is \u201clike welfare\u201d and stated he wants to gradually phase it out over the next decade amid rising disagreements between Tel Aviv and Washington, particularly over Iran policy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to stop US aid. It is like welfare. I do not want it,\u201d Netanyahu said in an interview with Israel\u2019s Channel 14 broadcast on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n

He claimed Israel\u2019s economy is no longer small and is capable of independently covering its costs.<\/p>\n

\u201cUS funding represents a small part of gross domestic product and Israel now has enough financial capacity to cover the amount entirely from its own resources,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Israel should \u2018reconsider\u2019 its relationship with the US<\/p>\n

Asked whether Israel should stop receiving US aid, Netanyahu, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges related to war crimes in Gaza, replied: \u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI want a 10-year phase that would gradually reduce Israel\u2019s dependence on the US,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu said Israel\u2019s economy is approaching $1 trillion and would be able to finance itself starting next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said US financial assistance to Israel is \u201clike welfare\u201d and stated he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-519817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}