The Most Important Trip of the Israeli President to the United States
The most important trip of the Israeli President to the United States: Isaac Herzog, the President of the State of Israel, has set off for the United States to conduct one of the most significant official visits of an Israeli President to the U.S. He will be welcomed in Washington by his brother, who is the ambassador of his government in the U.S.
Herzog is heading to Washington at a time when the most crucial issue for Joe Biden, the President of the United States, and his foreign policy team is the current elections in the occupied territories. The importance of Yair Lapid’s victory and preventing Benjamin Netanyahu from returning to power has influenced many decisions and plans of Biden’s team.
In a familiar process in all parliamentary democracies, within the structure of the Israeli government, it is also the President who assigns the task of forming the government, after the elections, to the individual whom he deems fit based on the election results and assessment of the Knesset seat composition. Herzog had previously, in semi-official and key discussions with some key Knesset representatives, spoken of his commitment to preventing a crisis following the elections and the prolonged process of forming a government.
The trip of the President of the State of Israel to the United States takes place at a time when Biden’s foreign policy team, led by its powerful and distinctive figure, is taking the final steps towards an agreement between Lebanon and Israel over maritime borders and gas resource extraction in these areas. The internal political tensions in the occupied territories in the week leading up to the elections must be managed by Biden and his foreign policy team, overshadowed by the electoral conditions and Lapid’s relatively critical status in the polls.