The US administration says it is determined to continue with its Middle East peace initiative, no matter who forms Israel's new government.
"President Obama looks forward to working with whoever makes up that next Israeli government in a search for lasting and durable peace in the region," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said on Wednesday.
Israel's Tuesday parliamentary polls gave Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni's center-left Kadima party a narrow lead in the elections over the right-wing Likud party, led by former prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who does not believe in peace negotiations.
Although Livni's Kadima Party has a one-seat advantage over hard-line Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party in parliament, but Likud's usual allies among the hawkish and Orthodox Jewish parties have a clear majority of 65 in the 120-seat parliament after Tuesday's elections.
The White House announcement comes amid newly raised concerns that Netanyahu is a setback to the peace process. Netanyahu has said that he considers the current US-backed Mideast peace talks a waste of time.
Gibbs said that though Obama is committed to work with the Israeli government, but it is unclear what the results will mean for peace in the Middle East until a new Israeli prime minister is named.
"But until we see something more definitive, it's hard to talk specifics, except to say that the president, as you've heard him say many times, is anxious to work with Israel and those in the region to form that lasting endurable peace."
AO/MMA