Yesh Atid head and former finance minister Yair Lapid told a town hall meeting in Rishon Letzion that “relations between Israel and the United States have never been worse”.

In his conversations with US officials, Lapid said he was told that due to the poor ties between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Barack Obama, “it’s no wonder that nobody listens to you when it comes to the Iranian issue”, according to the JPost on Saturday.

Lapid told the audience in Rishon Letzion that “not having a full-time foreign minister in Israel is a dangerous situation for the country.”

The former treasury chief said that this state of affairs explains “the government’s failure in combating an anti-Israel boycott".