The Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey is in Israel for top level talks with IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz and other senior cabinet ministers. According to Pentagon sources, the commander will first and foremost be discussing the Iranian threat. He will also be discussing other pressing regional issues including the civil war in Syria and the anarchy in Egypt.

Dempsey arrived in Israel on Monday, 6 Elul 5773 as an official guest of Gantz. Among the officials scheduled to meet with him are Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem / Photo: IDF Spokesman)