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Sunday, September 28, 2025
Syrian leader Sharaa meets World Jewish Congress head, discusses talks with Israel
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleSyrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa meets in New York with World Jewish Congress President and businessman Ronald Lauder.
The meeting is reported by the official Syrian news agency, which says the two discussed negotiations between Israel and Syria.
The two countries have been in talks over a security agreement, though Sharaa has said a full peace deal, or normalization along the lines of the Abraham Accords, is not currently on the table.
السيد الرئيس أحمد الشرع استقبل رئيس الكونغرس اليهودي العالمي رونالد لاودر في مقر البعثة السورية في نيويورك
????الاجتماع تناول الحديث عن المفاوضات السورية الإسرائيلية وذلك على هامش اجتماعات الدورة الثمانين للجمعية العامة للأمم المتحدة
????لادور ينحدر من أصول سورية وقد شارك في مسار… pic.twitter.com/Ah53RfisjN
— الإخبارية السورية (@AlekhbariahSY) September 28, 2025
Decades ago, Lauder was reported to have served as a mediator between Israel and Syria, shuttling messages between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-Syrian president Hafez al-Assad, whose son Bashar was deposed by Sharaa’s Islamist forces and other rebels last December.
The Times of Israel Community.