{"id":651587,"date":"2026-10-20T00:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T00:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/651587\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T00:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T00:54:09","slug":"pete-hegseth-benjamin-netanyahu-meet-in-israel-ahead-of-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/651587\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Hegseth, Benjamin Netanyahu meet in Israel ahead of elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in Israel on Monday, Axios reported, citing two sources familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The unannounced meeting comes eight days before Israeli elections and amid US-Israel discussions to resume combat operations against Iran, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>The leaders met at the Ovda Air Base in southern Israel, where the US deploys refueling planes and fighter jets, Axios cited two sources as saying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Hegseth also met with US troops at the base, the report added, citing a source with knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon and the Israeli Embassy declined Axios&#8217; request for comment, and the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office didn&#8217;t immediately respond.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in Israel on Monday, Axios reported, citing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,4410,85,87,46,43,31348],"class_list":["post-651587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-elections","tag-il","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-pete-hegseth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651587","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=651587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}