Prime Minister Yair Lapid will fly to Berlin for a day of diplomatic meetings next month, his office says.
Lapid, who is also foreign minister, will travel to Germany on September 11 and return the next day.
The Prime Minister’s Office does not say who Lapid will meet with and there is no immediate comment on the trip from Germany.
The announcement comes as Israel has sought to influence European-led negotiations to revive the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal, which the US pulled out of in 2018, effectively gutting it.
Lapid has argued that while he is not opposed to a deal, the one coming together will give Iran cash which it can use for terror activities and will not effectively keep Tehran from eventually building a nuclear weapon.
The trip will also come a month after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas raised a ruckus by accusing Israel of 50 holocausts during a joint health conference with German Chancellor Olaf Schultz.
Six days before Lapid’s planned visit, Germany will mark 50 years since 11 Israeli athletes were killed by Palestinian terrorists during the Olympic Games in Munich. Families of the Israeli victims have threatened to boycott the memorial over a dispute regarding compensation.
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