Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office is planning for his visit to Washington next week to meet with US President Donald Trump.
The trip has not been finalized and will depend on Netanyahu’s health, as he recovers from prostate surgery, but the plan is for him to depart on Sunday and return on Wednesday.
Netanyahu’s spokesman, Omer Dostri, posted on X that the prime minister had not yet received an official invitation to the White House.
If he travels, Netanyahu will be the first foreign leader to meet Trump in his second term, a gesture from the Republican president to the Israeli leader in return for him acceding to pressure to reach a ceasefire and hostage release deal in Gaza.
Speaking with reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump said Monday that Netanyahu will come to Washington “in the not so distant future,” adding that a date would be set for the meeting “very soon.”
Netanyahu’s lawyer has requested that his client be allowed to testify just once instead of three times this week in his corruption trial, due to what he said were medical complications following the prime minister’s recent prostate removal surgery. The request was denied.
US officials who confirmed Netanyahu is hoping to meet with Trump in Washington next week said the details could be be arranged when Trump’s special Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, travels to Israel this week for talks.
Source: AFP, Times of Israel
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