WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Washington would end its annual $3.8 billion in aid to Israel, on the day of midterm elections in which support for Israel has been a contentious issue. "We give Israel $4 billion a year, and we made a deal months ago that we're stopping," Trump said during a phone interview with Fox News. Trump said Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was "fine" with the decision to end the aid. Under the deal, Israel receives financial assistance for the purchase of around $3.8 billion in weapons a year. "Now we'll help Israel if they need it," Trump said. "Israel is a very thriving country. They don't need it." The announcement came as Americans voted in crucial midterm elections that will determine control of Congress for the last two years of Trump's presidency, and soon after parliamentary elections in Israel that did not produce a clear winner. Since its founding in 1948, Israel has received more than $300 billion, adjusted for inflation, in U.S. economic and military assistance, according to the Council on Foreign Relations, f