Overview
- White House officials are working to arrange the first public meeting between Benjamin Netanyahu and Abdel Fattah al-Sisi since 2017, according to multiple sourced reports.
- U.S. officials say Cairo expects Jerusalem to approve a multibillion-dollar natural-gas agreement before Sisi will agree to meet.
- Egypt approved the plan in July to buy Israeli gas that could supply an estimated quarter of its electricity, but the Israeli government has not endorsed it.
- Netanyahu has quietly formed a team to assemble tangible economic proposals for Cairo as potential summit deliverables.
- The initiative is part of a broader U.S. push for economic diplomacy to re-energize Israel’s ties with Arab states, with Chevron involved in the gas project and Egypt’s Gaza mediation strengthening its leverage.