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Not in the background, it's well documented. See https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/recips?code=Q05&cycle=2020&ind=Q05&recipdetail=P
That's less than 3‰ of his campaign funds. I can't Imagine that this would have changed his position. It could also have happened, that pro Israel groups ( like a metric fuck-ton of other people thought: "Let's support this guy a bit, so Trump doesn't win."
For Biden specifically, yes. See my comment here https://lemmy.zip/comment/12687469.
But Israel has enormous influence in US politics. They are by a huge margin the biggest spenders in US politics among foreign nations. And they don't care who you are as long you give them want they want.
Sheldon Adelson gave Trump 100 million for moving the US embassy to Jerusalem (which under international law doesn't belong to them). Now Miriam Adelson wants to give him another 100 million if he supports Israels's effort to illegally annex the Palestinians West Bank.