Report: Pompeo to visit Israel next week, meet Netanyahu and Gantz

6 May 2020, 4:51 pm

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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Israel next week and meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White party chief Benny Gantz, according to several Hebrewmedia outlets.

The Ynet website says Pompeo’s visit will focus both on the new government being established in Israel and on Israel’s plan to move forward with annexing parts of the West Bank under the Trump administration’s peace plan.

There is no official confirmation of the report at this time.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at a news conference at the State Department on April 29, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Harnik/POOL/AFP)

Asked about the matter during a press briefing in Washington this morning, the secretary says: “I don’t have any travel to confirm, but I think in the upcoming hours and days you’ll see an announcement.”