I'm Jake Tapper live in Jerusalem and welcome to its CNN exclusive report tonight.

The eyes of the world once again upon the Middle East at the end of the bloodiest month

for Israel and the West Bank in years.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu choosing now to sit down with CNN for an exclusive interview

his first televised interview since returning to power.

In recent days the U.S. Secretary of State, CIA director and the White House National

Security Advisor have all converged here, a clear sign that the Biden administration

and its closest allies realize this region is frankly on the precipice.

Over the next hour you will hear directly from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a

number of key topics including how he envisions any sort of peace with the Palestinians, the

backlash to his new right-wing coalition government, whether Israel plans to further help Ukraine

and its war against Russia, including militarily and his relationships with both the current

and former presidents of the United States.

We started our conversation on the surge of violence between Israelis and Palestinians

which in recent days has set off fears of perhaps a new intifada, an uprising that could

lead to a bloody deadly war.

Tonight the U.S. State Department confirms senior U.S. officials are remaining in the Middle

East after traveling here to try to help Israel and the Palestinian Authority quote, lower

the temperature.

And that's where I started our exclusive conversation with Prime Minister Netanyahu earlier tonight.

Prime Minister Netanyahu thank you so much for joining us.

My pleasure, welcome.

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