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Hegseth Meets Netanyahu in Unannounced Visit to Israel
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth traveled to an Israeli air base housing US warplanes and met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The meeting occurred eight days before Israel’s election.
Two sources with knowledge of the meeting told Axios that Hegseth met with Netanyahu at the Ovda Air Base in southern Israel. The secretary’s trip to Israel followed President Donald Trump’s endorsement of Netanyahu in the Israeli election scheduled for next Tuesday.
On Sunday, Trump wrote on Truth Social that the US and Israel would “finish the job” against Iran, but only if Netanyahu remains Prime…
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