We really don't like the Netanyahu he has become today, but you have to admit, he played on Trump's ego like a fiddler on a rooftop.
The current occupant of the White House is a narcissistic, semi(?) demented, who is only interested in being talked about, while lining his pockets and making (at least) six hundred million dollars for himself and his family by running the presidential cryptocurrency scam and manipulating stock market prices.
He's the one who blackmailed Ukraine for its mineral wealth, wanted to invade Greenland, wanted Canada for himself, etc... hello Gaza beach project, remember?
The Israeli officials were racing against time because D's attention was like a goldfish. Remember back, his loud statements and his fluctuations on a daily basis or so,
Israeli governments have had to deal with many idiot politicians around the world over the decades, they have experience.
But to get a fundamentally cowardly, greedy jerk to act against Iran beyond the level of decades of lip-service, essentially sending the Western bloc pushing for negotiations that were going nowhere again to hell, in just one week... well, that was a masterstroke.