{"id":291769,"date":"2026-02-14T23:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T23:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/291769\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T23:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T23:47:08","slug":"gideon-saar-to-represent-israel-at-donald-trump-board-of-peace-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/291769\/","title":{"rendered":"Gideon Sa&#8217;ar to represent Israel at Donald Trump Board of Peace summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Minister Gideon Sa\u2019ar will represent Israel at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-886586\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">US President Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> Board of Peace summit in Washington on Thursday, a source familiar with the matter told The Jerusalem Post.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu initially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-884020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">accepted the US president\u2019s invitation<\/a> to join the Board of Peace in January. At the time, the prime minister signed a letter \u201con behalf of Israel\u201d to \u201crefer to the charter of the Board of Peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy this communication, I confirm that the said signature is definitive,\u201d the letter signed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/politics-and-diplomacy\/article-886571\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Netanyahu<\/a> read, adding that this constituted \u201cthe consent of the State of Israel to be bound by the charter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">This past Wednesday, Netanyahu made Israel\u2019s membership on the Board of Peace official during a meeting with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio at Blair House in Washington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The Board of Peace initiative was originally designed with the intent of bringing the war in Gaza to a close, but Trump later said that it would resolve conflicts globally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Before it was confirmed that Sa\u2019ar would represent Israel at the conference, the Prime Minister\u2019s Office noted that Netanyahu would not be in the US this coming week.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the PMO said that Netanyahu would participate remotely in the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\/article-886243\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AIPAC<\/a> conference and therefore would not be traveling to the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Foreign Minister Gideon Sa\u2019ar will represent Israel at US President Donald Trump\u2019s Board of Peace summit in Washington&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[83118,112012,54,65,42,46,43,40,38,41,39,1032,730],"class_list":["post-291769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-aipac","tag-board-of-peace","tag-donald-trump","tag-gideon-saar","tag-headlines","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-states","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291769","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=291769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}