Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu departed for Washington early Monday afternoon ahead of his meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House tomorrow
The flight took place under an unprecedented level of secrecy imposed by the Prime Minister’s Office, Ynet reported. In a highly unusual move, the office did not announce the departure time from Israel, the expected arrival time in the United States, or even the location from which the aircraft would take off.
According to flight tracking websites, the Wing of Zion aircraft took off at approximately 1:00 p.m. from Nevatim Air Base in southern Israel, without first stopping at Ben Gurion Airport, from where Netanyahu usually departs. No journalists accompanied Netanyahu on the plane, and he did not speak to the press before boarding.
Netanyahu is scheduled to meet with President Trump tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. at the White House. The Prime Minister’s Office is awaiting a decision from the U.S. administration on whether Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio will join the meeting or meet separately with Netanyahu.
Iran is expected to be the central topic of the meeting, against the backdrop of efforts by the United States, Qatar, and Oman to reach a compromise that would regulate maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz and prevent a return to large-scale fighting.
Israeli officials are concerned that such an arrangement could enable Tehran to resume oil exports, receive sanctions relief, and channel tens of billions of dollars into its economy.
Netanyahu is expected to present Trump with updated intelligence on Iran’s efforts to rebuild its nuclear program, restore its ballistic missile capabilities, and conceal strategic assets deep underground.
In addition to Iran, the two leaders are expected to discuss the war in the Gaza Strip and developments involving Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lebanon, and Turkey.
Netanyahu is also scheduled to attend the funeral service for the late Sen. Lindsey Graham in Washington on Tuesday.
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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They will no doubt discuss this……
National Defense Authorization Act – NDAA
US-Israel Defense Integration on Horizon as House Keeps Section 219 in NDAA
The House is preparing to vote on the Fiscal Year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) with Section 219 (formerly section 224) still embedded in the roughly $1.1 trillion bill. The House approved the rule governing debate on H.R. 8800 by a 214-211
What Section 219 Would Do. Section 219 would direct the defense secretary to designate a Pentagon “executive agent” to oversee the United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative. That official would coordinate bilateral defense research, development, testing, evaluation and industrial cooperation.
The proposal originated as the bipartisan, bicameral United States-Israel FUTURES Act, introduced in the House by Reps. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) and Don Davis (D-N.C.) with companion legislation from Sens. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.).
Officially Israel has much better technology than USA , and it’s not because they are any smarter at all, it’s because the technology that Israel has is extremely lethal stuff that humans can’t contemplate, the USA has extremely brilliant technology that nobody has and it’s of no human harm, so it seems obvious that they will discuss openly all the technologies together, so that USA will know everything and Israel will benefit from less lethal technology and fighting with Iran, in the end God will prove that with all the extremely bright technologies that usa has and the lethal technologies that Israel has, only a God can win the battle