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Trump envoy returns to Qatar for hostage talks after meeting Netanyahu in Jerusalem

By Jacob Magid

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11 January 2025, 10:03 pm 1 Edit

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

Steve Witkoff arrives at a campaign rally for Donald Trump at the Butler Farm Show, October 5, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

US President-elect Donald Trump’s Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff is returning to Qatar to participate in the ongoing hostage negotiations after meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, a source familiar with the matter tells The Times of Israel.

Witkoff will be joined by a senior Israeli delegation that Netanyahu has dispatched to join mid-level Israeli negotiators already in Doha, as talks appear to near their peak.