Report: White House to host Netanyahu for meeting with Biden

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has received final approval that he will meet with US President Joe Biden at the White House when he travels to the US  at the end of the month to address a joint session of Congress, Channel 12 reports.

The report says the exact timing of the meeting has yet to be confirmed.

The White House had already said that the two leaders would most likely meet when Netanyahu is in Washington.

Netanyahu last met Biden when the president traveled to Israel days after Hamas’s October 7 terror onslaught. They also met two weeks before the attack, but the administration chose to hold the sit-down on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York and not the White House.

Netanyahu’s trip to Washington will be his first since returning to the premiership in December 2022.

Biden has hesitated to embrace the prime minister, who formed a coalition with far-right lawmakers that have advanced a series of policies opposed by the US, including a highly controversial plan to radically overhaul the judiciary, which faced massive backlash in Israel and has been shelved since the outbreak of the war.