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Bennett said to bar Gantz from attending Ramallah meeting with Abbas, Jordan’s Abdullah
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Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Defense Minister Benny Gantz attend the annual ceremony for soldiers whose burial places are unknown, at Mount Herzl national cemetery in Jerusalem, on March 10, 2022. (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool/Flash90)
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is preventing Defense Minister Benny Gantz from attending an upcoming meeting in Ramallah between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Jordan’s King Abdullah II, Channel 13 news reports.
According to the network, Gantz was due to take part in this week’s meeting to discuss efforts to prevent an escalation in violence over Ramadan.
However, the network says Bennett put the kibosh on Gantz’s participation, feeling it would distract from the summit in southern Israel between the foreign ministers of Israel, the US, the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, and Egypt, which is set to begin tomorrow.
Bennett and Gantz are reportedly set to meet tomorrow in a bid to clear the air.
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