{"id":284980,"date":"2026-02-11T02:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T02:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/284980\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T02:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T02:50:13","slug":"report-tucker-carlson-to-visit-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/284980\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Tucker Carlson to visit Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli officials considered denying entry to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\/article-881636\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tucker Carlson<\/a> ahead of an expected visit, but ultimately decided against it, according to a report by Bar Shem-Ur of HaTzinor on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">In his post on X\/Twitter, Shem-Ur wrote that Carlson was due to arrive in Israel after a trip to Jordan, and that \u201cgovernment sources\u201d had weighed preventing his entry in recent days.<\/p>\n<p>Versions of the same report circulated widely on Israeli social media and Telegram channels, with some reports adding that officials ultimately chose not to block Carlson to avoid harming Israel\u2019s public diplomacy and to prevent a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\/article-881029\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">diplomatic incident<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Sheh-Ur is a veteran journalist and presenter associated with Channel 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">In recent days, Carlson published a Middle East-related video containing content that criticized Huckabee\u2019s handling of issues involving Christian communities, and Huckabee responded on X\/Twitter by inviting Carlson to interview him, with Carlson replying that he wanted to do it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Israeli authorities had not issued an official statement addressing the Channel 13 report at the time it circulated. No US official has confirmed this report yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli officials considered denying entry to Tucker Carlson ahead of an expected visit, but ultimately decided against it,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[87611,85,46,1034,43,11916],"class_list":{"0":"post-284980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-channel-13","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-mike-huckabee","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tucker-carlson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}