{"id":12836,"date":"2022-04-01T09:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=12836"},"modified":"2022-04-05T10:03:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T14:03:25","slug":"readout-sen-ossoff-meets-with-member-of-israeli-knesset-nir-barkat%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/readout-sen-ossoff-meets-with-member-of-israeli-knesset-nir-barkat%ef%bf%bc\/","title":{"rendered":"READOUT: Sen. Ossoff Meets with Member of Israeli Knesset Nir Barkat\ufffc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington, D.C<\/strong>. \u2014 Last month, U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff met with Nir Barkat, Member of the Israeli Knesset.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During their in-person meeting, Sen. Ossoff and MK Barkat discussed the U.S.-Israel alliance, regional security in the Middle East, Russia\u2019s brutal military aggression in Ukraine, and MK Barkat\u2019s vision for Israel\u2019s future.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Ossoff and MK Barkat discussed relations between Israelis and Palestinians. Sen. Ossoff affirmed his commitment to helping achieve a future when Israelis and Palestinians alike can flourish in peace.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Ossoff continues to forge strong working relationships with key leaders in the Middle East.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One month ago, Sen. Ossoff&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/readout-sen-ossoff-meets-with-u-s-ambassador-to-israel-thomas-nides\/\">met<\/a>&nbsp;with U.S. Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In recent months, Sen. Ossoff has met twice with Israeli Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Idan Roll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Ossoff&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yairlapid\/status\/1448721507727855626?s=20\">met<\/a>&nbsp;twice last year with Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid \u2014 once in Israel and once in the United States \u2014 and also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/photos-sen-ossoff-meets-with-key-leaders-in-middle-east-greece\/\">met last year<\/a>&nbsp;with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Israeli President Isaac Herzog, and Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In November, Sen. Ossoff hosted Lebanon Armed Forces Commander General Joseph Aoun in Washington for consultations on regional security following their&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lb.usembassy.gov\/senator-chris-murphy-congressional-delegation-visit-lebanon\/\">September meeting<\/a>&nbsp;in Beirut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">###<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. \u2014 Last month, U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff met with Nir Barkat, Member of the Israeli Knesset.&nbsp; During their in-person meeting, Sen. Ossoff and MK Barkat discussed the U.S.-Israel alliance, regional security in the Middle East, Russia\u2019s brutal military aggression in Ukraine, and MK Barkat\u2019s vision for Israel\u2019s future. Sen. Ossoff and MK Barkat [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12836","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/12836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/12836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12838,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/12836\/revisions\/12838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}