{"id":543981,"date":"2026-07-16T07:39:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T07:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/543981\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T07:39:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T07:39:16","slug":"katz-confirms-he-spoke-to-pete-hegseth-about-iran-war-us-israeli-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/543981\/","title":{"rendered":"Katz confirms he spoke to Pete Hegseth about Iran war, US-Israeli collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Minister Israel Katz spoke overnight with US Secretary of Defense <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-902658\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pete Hegseth<\/a>, he confirmed in a statement on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth briefed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/israel-katz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Katz<\/a> on US military operations in Iran, and the two agreed to continue cooperation between the countries in response to any possible developments.<\/p>\n<p>Katz briefed Hegseth on Israel\u2019s operations against terrorist groups in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-902557\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Syria<\/a>, Gaza, and Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>He also emphasized Israel\u2019s determination to remain in security zones in Syria, Gaza, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-902625\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lebanon<\/a> to protect Israel\u2019s borders and nearby communities from &#8220;threats posed by jihadist forces,&#8221; citing this as a central lesson from the events of October 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cWe have never asked the US to act in our place along our borders. We are committed to protecting the residents of Israel from every threat, and that is what we intend to do,\u201d Katz said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defense Minister Israel Katz spoke overnight with US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, he confirmed in a statement&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,87,2723,43,31348,40,38,41,39,1032],"class_list":["post-543981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-israel-katz","tag-news","tag-pete-hegseth","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543981","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=543981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}