{"id":306415,"date":"2026-10-20T10:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T06:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=306415"},"modified":"2026-10-20T10:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T06:24:09","slug":"hegseth-meets-netanyahu-on-unannounced-israel-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/306415\/","title":{"rendered":"Hegseth meets Netanyahu on unannounced Israel visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel on Monday, two sources with knowledge told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/10\/19\/pete-hegseth-israel-visit-netanyahu-meeting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Axios<\/a>&#8228;<\/p>\n<p>Details of the talks have not been disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>The unannounced visit comes eight days before Israel&rsquo;s election and amid US-Israeli discussions about potentially resuming major combat operations against Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting with Netanyahu took place at Ovda Air Base in southern Israel, where US refueling planes and fighter jets are deployed, two sources said.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel on Monday, two sources with knowledge told Axios&#8228; Details of the talks have not been disclosed. The unannounced visit comes eight days before Israel&rsquo;s election and amid US-Israeli discussions about potentially resuming major combat operations against Iran. The meeting with Netanyahu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":306396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306416,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306415\/revisions\/306416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}