Macron with Netanyahu during a visit to Israel, January 2020 (Photo: L.A.M., Roni Knafo Editing: Amit Simcha)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will take off on Thursday for a visit to Paris during which he will meet with French President Emmanuel Macron, a senior Israeli official said this evening (Monday).
Macron invited Netanyahu for a visit in their first phone call after Netanyahu's election victory.
During the conversation, the two agreed on continuing to strengthen relations between Israel and France, as well as on discussing the regional issues common to the countries - especially Iran.
Netanyahu agreed to the invitation in the phone call.
The previous meeting between Netanyahu and Macron, January 2020 (Photo: Flash 90, Mark Israel Salem)
The last time a meeting was held between an Israeli prime minister and Macron was in July, when Yair Lapid came to visit Paris.
At the meeting, Macron expressed his support for the normalization process between Israel and Arab countries.
"This will strengthen stability in the region," he added and called for the renewal of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.
"There is no alternative," he claimed and turned to Lapid: "You can be a historical figure by renewing the peace process. I understand the obstacles but know that you can be the man to do it."
Other topics that Macron mentioned in his meeting with Lapid were the tensions between Israel and Lebanon and the war in Ukraine.
In the previous meeting between Netanyahu and Macron, the French president said that "challenging the existence of the State of Israel is a form of anti-Semitism. We must constantly remind ourselves where anti-Semitism led in the last century."
Macron added that "we will not allow Iran to achieve nuclear capability, but everything must be done to prevent escalation in the region."
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