News of Pompeo’s appointment broke as Israel’s political establishment still teetered on the brink of snap elections, but even hours after that crisis had been resolved, neither Netanyahu’s office nor the Foreign Ministry or any other top official issued any comments or offered congratulations to America’s new top diplomat.

Only Intelligence Minister Israel Katz, who had met Pompeo several times during his 14-month stint as the head of the world’s most well-known spy agency, took to Twitter to congratulate Pompeo and “thank him for his support of Israel.”

Tillerson, who learned about his unceremonious dismissal from a Trump tweet, was considered by Jerusalem a friendly secretary of state. A former oil tycoon, he had no previous ties to the Jewish state, but seemed on board with the administration’s general pro-Israel positions. He was certainly no John Kerry, who pushed and criticized Israel on the peace process and promoted a nuclear deal with Iran that Israel said threatened the peace of the entire world.

Tillerson did, however, disagree with Trump on several key foreign policy issues. Most notably, the outgoing secretary of state did not share the president’s passionate hatred of the Iran nuclear pact.

“When you look at the Iran deal, I think it’s terrible,” Trump said Tuesday. Tillerson, on the other hand, was “okay” with it, he explained. “I wanted to either break it or do something, and he felt a little bit differently. So we were not really thinking the same.”

US President Donald Trump, left, and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson wait for a meeting with Qatar’s Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani at the Palace Hotel on September 19, 2017 in New York City, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. (AFP/ Brendan Smialowski)

By contrast, Pompeo is a known hawk on Iran. His views on the 2015 Iran deal perfectly align with those of Trump — and Netanyahu. They all think the deal was a catastrophe and needs to be dramatically improved or thrown out altogether.

Pompeo indicated in late 2014,

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