Netanyahu will not be heading to the US later this month, as he had been planning, Channel 10 News reports.
According to the report, the prime minister could not manage to schedule a meeting with US President Barack Obama between the time Netanyahu is due to land for the AIPAC conference and Obama is scheduled to leave for Cuba.
The Prime Minister’s Office tells The Times of Israel it cannot confirm the report.
Netanyahu had been thought to be heading to the US for the AIPAC conference on March 20 and for a meeting with Obama, when it was rumored he might sign a new 10-year defense aid deal worth billions of dollars.
Obama is scheduled to leave for Cuba on March 21.
The prime minister will still likely address the AIPAC conference via video, as he has done in the past.
— with Raphael Ahren
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