Netanyahu hosts likely Board of Peace envoy

By Lazar Berman

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8 January 2026, 6:44 pm

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Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Bulgarian diplomat Nickolay Mladenov at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 8, 2026. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets in Jerusalem with Nickolay Mladenov, the former UN official who is in line to become the representative of the US-backed Board of Peace in Gaza.

According to his office, Netanyahu stresses that “Hamas must disarm and that the Gaza Strip must be demilitarized in accordance with President Trump’s 20-point framework.”