Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released the following series of tweets regarding his call on Sunday with President Donald Trump.
I had a very warm conversation on the phone tonight with President Donald Trump. He invited me to meet him in February. pic.twitter.com/wEbVZPmTIa
— Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu) January 22, 2017
Looks like a date for a meeting in Washington has been set for next month. The statement did not specifically mention the issue of moving the United States embassy to Jerusalem. Sean Spicer addressed that report earlier.
“We are at the very beginning stages of even discussing this subject," says @PressSec of moving US Embassy to Jerusalem
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) January 22, 2017
We will see where this goes from here. It would certainly appear that U.S.-Israel relations have improved over the last two days.
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