Netanyahu touts prospects for an agreement with Saudi Arabia - and possibly the Palestinians - in UN speech

(JTA) — Benjamin Netanyahu used his address to the United Nations to tout the prospect of a diplomatic agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia, and to broach a topic that he has previously downplayed: Israeli-Palestinian peace.

The Israeli prime minister also used the end of his 25-minute speech to herald the benefits — and warn of the dangers — of artificial intelligence, largely reprising what he told tech mogul Elon Musk in a live streamed conversation earlier in the week.

And he did not mention one burning issue that has preoccupied Israeli politics — and led to civil strife — all year:...