Prime Minister Naftali Bennett secretly met with Jordan’s King Abdullah at his palace in Amman last week, as the two countries finalize a major water deal in advance of their separate trips to Washington later this summer.
The story of the meeting was reported widely Thursday by the Israeli media but was not confirmed by Bennett’s office.
Such meetings between former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and King Abdullah were rare and had not happened for a number of years due to rising tensions between the two countries. At last week’s meeting Bennett and Abdullah agreed that the two countries must heal that rift. As a step in that direction they spoke of a water deal.