Israel knew....

Buzfeed's Sheera Frenkel reports that Israel knew that the US was holding back channel talks with Iran. Our government was told by the Saudis.
“We did not know from the beginning, but we knew, we had intelligence
that these meetings were happening,” said the Israeli minister, who
spoke to BuzzFeed by phone from his Jerusalem office. He said that a
“friend in the Gulf” shared intelligence