{"id":544565,"date":"2026-07-16T15:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T15:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/544565\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T15:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T15:29:09","slug":"benjamin-netanyahu-postpones-trip-to-washington-for-lindsey-grahams-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/544565\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Netanyahu postpones trip to Washington for Lindsey Graham&#8217;s funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has postponed his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/politics-and-diplomacy\/article-902555\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">planned trip<\/a> to the United States, the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for the delayed departure is the postponement of former US senator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-902536\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lindsey Graham<\/a>&#8216;s funeral, which was rescheduled to the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Netanyahu had been set to fly to Washington on Saturday night to attend Graham&#8217;s funeral and to meet with US President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-902520\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu was expected to remain in Washington through Tuesday, but his itinerary was yet to be officially scheduled, sources told The Jerusalem Post.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister\u2019s visit would mark the first official trip to Washington since the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-902646\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">war with Iran<\/a>. His last visit was in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">During a recent phone call made by Netanyahu to congratulate Trump on the 250th anniversary of US independence, the two leaders agreed to \u201cmeet soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amichai Stein contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has postponed his planned trip to the United States, the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,54,85,46,70878,43,1032],"class_list":["post-544565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-donald-trump","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-lindsey-graham","tag-news","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544565","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=544565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}