Rebecca Shabad is a politics reporter for NBC News based in Washington.
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Jack Lew to be the new U.S. ambassador to Israel as Congress gears up for a fight over how to provide funding to support Israel in its war against Hamas. The vote was 53-43 with support from only two Republicans: Sens. Rand Paul, of Kentucky, and Lindsey Graham, of South Carolina. No members of the Democratic Caucus voted against him.
“At the risk of repeating myself, the threats facing America and our allies are serious and they’re intertwined. If we ignore that fact, we do so at our own peril,' he said. Lew, who is Jewish, has decades of experience in Washington and has been active in pro-Israel advocacy circles. He was White House chief of staff for the last two years of President Barack Obama’s first term and then treasury secretary from 2013 to 2017.
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