Israeli PM Netanyahu says he’d “of course” meet with Gov. DeSantis during a high-profile trade mission. 'I think it’s my job, and I think it’s important for Israel’s bipartisan support in the United States,' Netanyah adds.
DeSantis has long touted a strong relationship with Israel as one of his top priorities, but Netanyahu’s close ties to the former president sets up a thorny dynamic with Trump and DeSantis gearing up to clash in the presidential race.
The release noted that bilateral trade between Florida and Israel reached $651 million in 2022 and that it has grown 65 percent over the last five years.DeSantis’ support for Israel has been evident even before his gubernatorial administration. During a 2017 trip as a congressman, he joined a group of U.S. lawmakers on a fact-finding mission to Israel where he scouted locations for the possible moving of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem — and also met with Netanyahu.
In his book, “The Courage To be Free,” DeSantis highlighted the 2017 trip and an accompanying press conference where he expressed his view that then-President Trump would deliver on his promise to move the embassy to Jerusalem.people wondered,” Desantis wrote. “I was freelancing, and my trip was not coordinated with the White House, so the answer was: not necessarily.”A month prior to that announcement, DeSantis convened a subcommittee hearing to press the issue.
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