Foreign ministers from Gulf states and Iran are expected to meet on Monday in Salalah, Oman, in an effort led by Muscat to reach a temporary agreement to ease hostilities and manage shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, the Financial Times reports.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman reportedly called President Donald Trump twice on Thursday, pressing him to strike the Iran-backed Houthis after they seized the strategic Yemeni port of Mocha. Axios cited two U.S. officials who said Trump declined the request.

Rachel Rabin-Yaakov, sister of assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and one of the founders of Kibbutz Manara in the Galilee, died on Friday at 101.

Israel demolished an underground Hezbollah facility under the Ali Taher Ridge in southern Lebanon on Thursday, using 1,100 tons of explosives to destroy the site the IDF said served as a regional “nerve center” for the terror group.

Former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), the GOP nominee for Senate in Michigan, took aim at his Democratic opponent, Abdul El-Sayed, in his remarks at the GOP midterm convention on Thursday, calling out in particular El-Sayed’s relationship with streamer Hasan Piker. Rogers highlighted Piker’s comments that America “deserved 9/11,” according to Axios, as other Republican candidates also campaign around the 25th anniversary of the attacks.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee attended a ceremony on Thursday at the 9/11 Living Memorial Plaza in Jerusalem, the only memorial outside of the U.S. to list the name of each victim killed in the terror attacks.

The next round of negotiations between Israel and Lebanon will be held over two days next week in Rome, an Israeli official told The Times of Israel.

The International Atomic Energy Agency has observed construction activity at Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain, a suspected nuclear site, IAEA head Rafael Grossi told Bloomberg Television. President Donald Trump said similarly on Wednesday, “We notice there’s a little activity at Pickaxe,” and warned Iran “not to get cute because we will have to hit them very hard.”

Iran has also resumed producing ballistic missiles, officials told The Wall Street Journal, working in underground facilities with components it had stockpiled before the war began.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe” today that the U.S. should take a “very tough position” if Israeli voters reelect the government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel’s upcoming elections, but said a new Israeli government could provide opportunities for more constructive progress.

Algeria cut diplomatic ties with the UAE on Thursday over what it called “hostile” actions by Abu Dhabi, but without specifying a reason. The two countries have been opposed on several regional issues in recent years, including normalization with Israel and sovereignty of the Western Sahara region, and rhetoric from Algerian media and officials has become increasingly critical of the Gulf state.

The J50, a forum of Diaspora Jewish organizations from around the world, issued a declaration signed by 59 organizations representing 40 countries which declares that anti-Zionism, “as manifested today through efforts to deny the Jewish people their right to self-determination, or demand that Jews renounce Zionism as the price of acceptance in political, academic, professional, or cultural life,” is antisemitic, and reaffirms the principles of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism.

Iran reportedly damaged multiple U.S. military aircraft in overnight strikes at the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, according to CBS.

The Iran-backed Houthis have reportedly seized the Yemeni Red Sea port city of Mocha, Yemeni government sources told Reuters. Witnesses told AFP the rebel forces chanted “Death to America, death to Israel,” as they entered the city.