“I’m seeing people say Donald may not be their first choice, but Donald is the choice we have considering where we are.”

Emily Landau, head of the Arms Control Program at the INSS: Fact that Iran can research, develop advanced centrifuges is a major source of concern.

It was not immediately clear what the exact target of the strike might have been, but rebels operating in the region say the Lebanese group Hezbollah also has a presence there.

“The anti-Semitism that is threaded throughout the Republican Party of late goes straight to the feet of Donald Trump," Debbie Wasserman Schultz says.

No senior members of the Obama administration have challenged the veracity of the report, or the existence of the secret document, seeking instead to promote their own interpretation of it.

Trump-GOP disengagement leaves Israel to its own devices in solving its conflict with the Palestinians.

"The threat of expulsion will serve as a silencing tactic, while also impeding MKs’ ability to faithfully fulfill the mandate they promised to their voters.”

In the Defense Ministry’s statement on Monday, it said it “views the words of the head of the Eli academy Rabbi Yigal Levenstein with great severity and strongly deplores them.”