Regional shifts, especially involving Iran, Syria and Turkey, are forcing Israel to reevaluate its complicated relations with Russia.

With the new regime in Syria supported by Ankara, and the deployment of Turkish forces, no one in Israel wants to be caught off guard.

Israel’s actions toward Syria's new interim regime risk fomenting further instability in the region, a Turkish official told Al-Monitor.

Concerned over the growing influence of Turkey in Syria, Israel seeks ways to increase its own influence there, including renewing its partnership with the Druze.

Israel is lobbying the United States to keep Syria weak and decentralised, including by letting Russia keep its military bases there to counter Turkey's growing influence in the country, four sources familiar with the efforts said.

Israel lobbies US to keep Syria weak, decentralised, sources say Israel supports Russia's military presence in Syria, sources say Israel concerned about Turkey's influence in Syria BEIRUT/WASHINGTON,

"A confrontation, possibly even a small-scale military one, may occur between Israel and Turkey," one expert told Newsweek.

State Oil Company (SOCAR) is set to increase its involvement in Israel's energy industry. Sources have informed Globes that SOCAR, as the operator in a consortium with British Petroleum (BP) and Yitzhak Tshuva's NewMed Energy to search for gas in Block I in the northwest of Israel's economic waters,

In 2023, Mr. Netanyahu outlined elements of his vision in an address to the United Nations General Assembly. The prime minister held up a map that erased Palestine and showed the Golan Heights, captured from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war, as part of Israel.

Israel’s actions toward Syria's new interim regime risk fomenting further instability in the region, a Turkish official told Al-Monitor.

Regional shifts, especially involving Iran, Syria and Turkey, are forcing Israel to reevaluate its complicated relations with Russia.

A bipartisan group of House members introduced legislation this week to redesignate Turkey at the State Department as a Middle Eastern country, rather than a European country, describing the move as a message to Turkey about its turn away from its relationships with Europe and the United States and shift toward U.S. adversaries.