Thirteen months after their last meeting and following a four-month period during which they have not spoken by phone, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Barack Obama met on Monday at the White House for a two-and-a-half hour meeting.
At a press briefing after the meeting, Netanyahu said that he conveyed to Obama Israel's expectations that any international agreement in Syria between will have to "take into account Israel's interests."
Netanyahu added he stressed to Obama Israel's red lines: that it would not stand for attacks from Syrian territory, nor would it accept a second Iranian front opening on the Golan Heights.
Obama and Netanyahu agreed that at the beginning of December, an American team headed by the U.S. National Security Council's senior director for Israel Yael Lempert will begin the negotiations on the memorandum with a team from Israel's National Security Council.