Israel removed the recognition of the Armenian Genocide from the Knesset's agenda under direct pressure from Azerbaijan, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu personally blocked the vote after being contacted by an adviser to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported, citing an Israeli source. Netanyahu intervened after Hikmet Hajiyev, the foreign policy adviser to Aliyev, reached out to the Prime Minister's Office on Aliyev's behalf. Israeli officials then assured their Azerbaijani counterparts that the issue had been struck from the Knesset's agenda and would not be brought to a vote during the final plenary sessions before the parliament's summer recess last week. The account fills in what had until...