Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has examined tremendous for Covid-19, his workplace stated on Monday, after he met US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
Mr Bennett, who met Mr Blinken in Jerusalem on Sunday at the sidelines of a “anciental summit” of Israeli and Arab diplomats, “is feeling properly and could keep his time table as deliberate from his home,” a assertion from his workplace stated.
Also on Sunday, Mr Bennett visited the northern Israeli metropolis of Hadera after gunmen shot useless cops in an assault claimed through the jihadist Islamic State institution.
Police stated the 2 gunmen — Israeli Arabs diagnosed through Israeli intelligence as nearby IS operatives — had been killed through counterterrorism officials who took place to be nearby.
Mr Bennett’s workplace stated that on Monday the top minister “will maintain a state of affairs evaluation following the assault that came about remaining night time with” the ministers of defence, public security, the army’s leader of personnel and different officers.
Pictures posted through Israeli media after his go to to Hadera, at some point of which he became additionally briefed through the police at the assault, confirmed him sporting a face masks.
But the top minister did now no longer have a face masks at some point of a joint information convention with Mr Blinken on Sunday.
The US pinnacle diplomat is in Israel to wait landmark talks with officers from the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco — nations that normalised ties with the Jewish nation in 2020.
His Egyptian counterpart may also be part of the institution who’re assembly later Monday withinside the Negev desert.
The talks come amid growing local issues over a deal Washington should quickly attain with Iran to repair the 2015 nuclear deal.
Israel and maximum Gulf Arab nations are sceptical of a revived cope with Tehran, which the Jewish nation considers a risk to its existence.
The Negev assembly additionally takes region because the United States and European allies specific quiet frustration that Middle East nations commonly have now no longer proven robust guide for efforts to guide Ukraine following Russia’s invasion or distanced themselves from Moscow.
On Sunday evening, after assembly Bennett, Blinken travelled to the Israeli-occupied West Bank for talks with Palestinian chief Mahmud Abbas.
