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After being forced to postpone their first face-to-face meeting because of the Afghanistan suicide bombings, was scheduled to host at the White House on Friday, with Iran on the agenda.

Thursday's , which killed 13 USÌýsoldiers and 72 Afghans during a chaotic USÌýevacuation mission from the country, occurred just hours before the was originally scheduled.Ìý

But as the USÌýdeath toll mounted, USÌýand Israeli officials said the meeting had been called off and rescheduled for Friday. Israeli media reported the two leaders would meet at 10:25 a.m. eastern time (14:25 GMT) on Friday.

In a statement early on Friday, Bennett's office said Biden called the Israeli premier and "thanked (him) for his understanding of the change in time of their meeting, in light of the events in

Bennett expressed his deepest condolences over the attacks and said Israel shared with the USÌýin its sorrow.

Biden and Bennett's meeting, the first since the two men took office, is aimed at resetting the tone of US-Israeli relations and finding common ground on

The two leaders will try to turn the page on years of tensions between Bennett's predecessor, Benjamin Netanyahu, who was close to former , and the last Democratic administration led by Barack Obama with Biden as his vice president.

Bennett, a far-right politician who ended Netanyahu's 12-year run as prime minister in June 2021, is expected to press Biden to harden his approach to Iran and halt negotiations aimed at reviving an international nuclear deal with Tehran that Trump abandoned.

will tell Bennett that he shares Israel's concern that Iran has expanded its nuclear program but remains committed for now to diplomacy with Tehran, a senior administration official said.