The President of Israel traveled to Jordan to meet with King Abdullah II ahead of Biden’s tour

June 29. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The President of Israel, Isaac Herzog, traveled this week to Jordan to hold a meeting with King Abdullah II in view of the visit to the region that the President of the United States, Joe Biden, will make in July, as revealed by the Presidency on Wednesday. Israeli.

“Ahead of Biden’s visit to the Middle East and as part of diplomatic developments in the region, Herzog met this week with King Abdullah II of Jordan at his Royal Palace in Jordan,” his office said in a statement. release.

Thus, he spoke of a “warm” meeting that took place at the invitation of the Jordanian monarch and detailed that both “discussed deeply strategic issues, both bilaterally and regionally.”

“The visit also addressed the protection of stable relations between Israel and Jordan and the need for a dialogue with all the actors in the region,” the Israeli Presidency has settled.

Bilateral relations, which had improved during Naftali Bennett’s tenure as Israeli prime minister, were further worsened by the May incidents on the Temple Mount, known to Jews as the Temple Mount.

Herzog’s visit to Jordan, which had not been previously announced, represents the highest-level trip since then, after the president of the Israeli National Security Council, Eyal Hulata, traveled to Amman last week.

Biden will begin a tour of the Middle East on July 13 that will take him for the first time since taking office to Israel and the West Bank, where he plans to reiterate his “strong support” for the two-state solution to achieve peace between Israelis and Palestinians, and that will also include a stopover in Saudi Arabia.