JERUSALEM—Israel’s finance minister is distancing himself from claims by Israel’s former ambassador to the U.S. that President Barack Obama is purposely damaging U.S.-Israel relations.
Moshe Kahlon said in a letter to America’s ambassador to Israel that he “summoned” Michael Oren, now a lawmaker in his Kulanu political party, to his office after learning that Oren had expressed his views in an op-ed this week in the Wall Street Journal. The Associated Press on Thursday received a copy of the letter.
