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Top Netanyahu advisers to also meet with Blinken during DC visit
File: (Left to right) Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Council chairman Tzachi Hanegbi at the State Department in Washington on March 7, 2023. (Antony Blinken/Twitter)
WASHINGTON — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s top advisers will meet White House adviser Jake Sullivan and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in Washington today amid tensions between the two allies over Israel’s war in Gaza, officials say.
National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi and Ron Dermer, minister for strategic affairs, will speak with Sullivan as a larger, more formal “strategic dialogue” meeting was being rescheduled, according to a White House official who speaks on the condition of anonymity.
Blinken will meet with the Israelis at 3 p.m. local time, according to a senior State Department official.
