Biden, Netanyahu talk for first time in nearly 50 days

The two leaders reportedly discussed Israel’s plans to respond to Iran’s Oct. 1 ballistic missile attack

U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on Wednesday — their first phone call since Aug. 21, according to White House readouts of their communications.

The two leaders did not appear to speak on Oct. 7, the one-year anniversary of Hamas’s terror attack in southern Israel, and the bloodiest day in Jewish history since the Holocaust, and there were no public acknowledgments of communication between the two in the aftermath of Iran’s Oct. 1 missile barrage against the Jewish state.