Haaretz reports on Monday morning 18 Sivan that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, accompanied by opposition leader MK Yitzchak Herzog, secretly met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The report states the meeting took place in the Presidential Palace in April 2016 during the time period when Herzog was in contact with the prime minister about possibly entering the coalition government.

The traveled with a number of advisors on a private jet, late at night, from an airport in the center of the country directly to Cairo. From their they traveled directly to the presidential palace for the meeting, which surrounding political steps to advance a regional diplomatic policy. They were back in Israel before sunrise.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)