A spokesperson for US Vice President Mike Pence does not confirm an Israeli report earlier today according to which the vice president will visit Israel on January 21, but insists he still plans to visit this month.
“As we’ve said all along, the Vice President is going to the Middle East in January. We’re finalizing details and will announce specifics of the full trip in the coming days,” Alyssa Farah, Pence’s press secretary, says in a statement.
The report, carried by Israel’s Channel 10 news and sourced to a senior Israeli officials, said Pence was invited by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to visit on January 21, and that the visit would last one day.
Pence was slated to visit Israel last month, but delayed the trip in order to help shepherd a key tax reform bill through Congress.
US Vice President Mike Pence speaks as his wife Karen Pence listens during a dinner with soldiers and family members after Easter Sunday church services at a military base in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, April 16, 2017. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
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