Susan Rice will lead a US delegation to the US-Israel Consultative Group to pay her visit to Israel as National Security Advisor in May, the White House announced Wednesday.

The visit is part of the outcome of Monday's "productive consultations" between President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the National Security Council said in a statement.

"Ambassador Rice looks forward to her first visit to Israel as National Security Advisor to continue our strategic consultations on a wide range of bilateral and regional issues," Hayden said, without disclosing further details.

During their talks on Monday, Obama and Netanyahu discussed the Mideast peace talks and Iran's nuclear program, among others.

Israel and the Palestinians have made little progress since they resumed peace talks last July after a three-year halt. Obama urged Netanyahu to make some "tough" decisions in order to move forward on peace talks with the Palestinians, while the hardline Israeli leader blamed the lack of progress on the Palestinians for not have done their part in advancing the peace process.

Netanyahu also reiterated Israel's worries over Iran's nuclear program, despite the initial progress made in the peace talks held by Iran with six major nations, including the United States, Britain, France, China, Russia and Germany.

According to an interim deal signed in November, Iran agreed to halt some nuclear activities and allow more international inspections in exchange for easing some of the US-led crippling economic sanctions.

But Israel remains deeply suspicious of the deal, describing it as a plot by Tehran to rid itself of the economic sanctions without completely giving up its nuclear ambitions.