Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will skip the Sharm el-Sheikh peace conference hosted by President Donald Trump and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.

In a pivotal biblical story — retold each Rosh Hashana, marking the Jewish new year — God orders Abraham to sacrifice Isaac. Abraham agrees, binds Isaac to an altar and is stopped before killing his son by an angel who says Abraham has passed a test of faith.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron will travel to Egypt to attend the signing ceremony of the peace plan for Gaza on Monday.

In touting his Gaza ceasefire win, the president projected optimism for a wider peace while sidestepping the many obstacles that remain.

In an emotional and historic exchange on Monday, Hamas released the final 20 living hostages held since the Oct. 7 terror attack, while Israel freed almost 2,000 Palestinian prisoners under a U.S.-brokered cease-fire deal that President Donald Trump called “the dawn of a new Middle East.

Amid a historic peace deal in Gaza, the Trump White House is also exerting pressure on Russia to end the war in Ukraine.

ABC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Ian Pannell reports from Tel Aviv, Israel, on the latest developments in the Middle East.

President Donald Trump is on his way to Israel, where he will address members of Parliament before he joins a Middle East peace summit in Egypt.