{"id":443762,"date":"2026-02-02T00:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T00:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/443762\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T00:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T00:42:09","slug":"media-chief-of-the-general-staff-of-the-israeli-army-held-secret-consultations-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/443762\/","title":{"rendered":"Media: Chief of the General Staff of the Israeli army held secret consultations in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"Media: Chief of the General Staff of the Israeli army held secret consultations in the United States\" title=\"Media: Chief of the General Staff of the Israeli army held secret consultations in the United States\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ezgif-485db2ede600cf62-1769972614.webp.webp\" data-rjs=\"2\"\/><\/p>\n<p>IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir speaks in a video statement issued on June 25, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)<\/p>\n<p>Chief of Staff of the Israeli army, Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir, made a secret visit to Washington for consultations with US military leadership, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a> reports, citing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Jerusalem Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, the visit took place this weekend, during which Zamir presented his American counterparts with &#8220;sensitive intelligence information,&#8221; discussed &#8220;military options against <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/trump-hopes-for-an-agreement-between-the-us-and-iran\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran<\/a>&#8221; with them, and attempted to influence diplomatic negotiations between Washington and Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>According to JPost, the Israeli military commander emphasized that intelligence indicates Iran is making progress in rebuilding its military capabilities, particularly in ballistic missile production. <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/israeli-strikes-in-gaza-leave-at-least-32-dead-according-to-rescue-officials\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Israel<\/a> is concerned that the US could reach an agreement with Iran to freeze its nuclear program without limiting the Islamic Republic&#8217;s missile capabilities, the publication writes.<\/p>\n<p>Upon returning from Washington, the general met with Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz and reported on the results of his trip, JPost reports. Katz and Zamir discussed &#8220;an assessment of the situation in the region and the IDF&#8217;s operational readiness for any scenario,&#8221; among other topics, the newspaper notes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"by-user\" href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/journalists\/salman-rahimli\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">By Salman Rahimli<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir speaks in a video statement issued on June 25, 2025.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,208770,208769,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-443762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-chief-of-staff-of-the-israeli-army","tag-eyal-zamir","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}