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Source confirms Netanyahu set to meet Trump’s Mideast envoy in Jerusalem today

By Jacob Magid

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11 January 2025, 2:35 pm Edit

Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief

US President-elect Donald Trump speaks as Steve Witkoff listens, during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, January 7, 2025, in Palm Beach, Florida. (AP/ Evan Vucci)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet incoming US Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff in Jerusalem today, a source familiar the meeting confirms to The Times of Israel.

Witkoff, US President-elect Donald Trump’s designated point person on the Middle East, met with Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani in Doha yesterday, who briefed him on the ongoing hostage negotiations that the Gulf state is mediating between Israel and Hamas.

The meetings come amid cautious optimism in Washington that a deal could be cinched before Trump takes office on January 20, though mediators have reportedly downplayed claims of progress in the efforts to free Israeli hostages held by the Palestinian terror group in Gaza and end the ongoing war.