{"id":531374,"date":"2026-07-08T14:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T14:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/531374\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T14:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T14:39:10","slug":"pentagon-chief-hegseth-cancels-visit-to-israel-the-jerusalem-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/531374\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Chief Hegseth Cancels Visit to Israel &#8211; The Jerusalem Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth canceled his planned visit to Israel on Wednesday, July 8, during which he was to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his counterpart, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz. This was reported by UNN citing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/defense-news\/article-901816\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Jerusalem Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Details<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth, who is in Ankara with U.S. President Donald Trump for the NATO summit, was to make a brief visit amid U.S. strikes on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>These strikes were carried out overnight in response to a series of attacks by Tehran against three commercial tankers in Omani waters, near the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian state media reported several wounded.<\/p>\n<p>Later, Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed that strikes were carried out on 85 U.S. military facilities in Bahrain and Kuwait &#8220;in response to the U.S. violation of the ceasefire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Recall<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth&#8217;s visit to Israel <a href=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/news\/holova-pentahonu-pit-hehset-upershe-vidvidaie-izrail-8-lypnia-cnn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was intended<\/a> to allay Israeli concerns about a possible sale of advanced F-35 stealth fighters to Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu <a href=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/news\/netaniahu-rozkrytykuvav-mozhlyvyi-prodazh-turechchyni-f-35-i-zvernuvsia-do-trampa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stated<\/a> that he opposes the possible sale of F-35 aircraft to Turkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth canceled his planned visit to Israel on Wednesday, July 8, during which he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-531374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531374","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=531374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}