This source, the San Francisco Jewish Bulletin, is seldom an insider resource, but this time, in this story, they are quoting many reliable Israeli spokespeople.
This story is about significant progress in Syrian-Israeli negotiations with Turkey playing the negotiator and Jordan wanting reassurances.
The U.S. president is needed in the deal for the purpose of paying-off Syria, just as Carter was needed in 1978 to get Israel out of Sinai with a $2 billion a year payment to Egypt. (Israel needed Carter in that deal though the Israeli's knew that he was an anti-Semite and that he would force Israel to accept control of Gaza as part of the deal.)