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Monday, October 13, 2025
WATCH: Trump meets with world leaders in Egypt, including PA’s President Abbas
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US President Donald Trump is meeting world leaders at a summit co-hosted by Egypt in Sharm el-Sheikh, focused on Trump’s broad peace plan for Gaza.
He shakes hands and talks briefly with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Two weeks ago, Abbas was denied a US visa and was therefore unable to attend the UN General Assembly in New York, instead addressing it via videolink.
He met a few minutes ago with Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi.
Trump brokered an invitation this morning for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to attend the summit, Netanyahu and Sissi spoke by phone, and Egypt announced that the prime minister would participate. But Netanyahu later declined the invite, citing the start tonight of the Simchat Torah festival.
The Times of Israel Community.