Bolsonaro, 'Netanyahu invited me to go to Israel' - Breaking news. The former Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, has instructed his lawyers to request authorization for a trip to Israel, after receiving an invitation from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The detail of Netanyahu's invitation was revealed by the former president himself, to a political event in Salvador. Lula's progressive government is at loggerheads with the Tel Aviv executive, after having repeatedly defined the Israeli incursions in the Gaza strip as "genocide"