Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s upcoming trip to the United States — where he is set to meet US President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on December 29 — is expected to include a series of additional high-level meetings, as the American administration pushes for movement on the emerging Gaza framework, Channel 12 reports.
According to the report, the White House is working to bring Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi to the Mar-a-Lago meeting as part of efforts to secure Israeli approval for a strategic Gaza-related arrangement with Cairo.
Netanyahu is slated to remain in Florida for eight days and hold two meetings with Trump, as well as sit-downs with Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Channel 12 adds that US officials conveyed to Jerusalem that Trump aims to announce the transition to the second phase of the Gaza plan before Christmas, including an initial civil administration model for Rafah.
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