Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., will reportedly meet with Israeli President Isaac Herzog when he visits the nation’s capital on Tuesday after President-elect Donald Trump named the Home Republican Convention chair to be his subsequent U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Herzog is predicted to satisfy with a number of high-profile lawmakers in D.C. Tuesday, together with President Biden, Sen. Lindsey Graham and Stefanik, his workplace instructed The Instances of Israel. The assembly with Stefanik comes shortly after Trump mentioned she could be his subsequent ambassador to the United Nations.
President of Israel Isaac Herzog meets with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni (not in image) earlier than their assembly at Palazzo Chigi, on July 25, 2024, in Rome, Italy. (Getty Photographs)
On Monday, Trump confirmed experiences that he could be nominating the GOP convention chairwoman to be his subsequent UN ambassador, noting how she “is an extremely robust, powerful, and good America First fighter.”
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Stefanik, the highest Republican within the Home of Representatives, can be a agency supporter of Israel and has been a number one voice difficult the rising tide of antisemitism on school campuses following the tragic Hamas bloodbath of harmless Israelis on Oct. 7, 2023.
Stefanik, for instance, made headlines final 12 months after urgent the presidents of three of the nation’s most prestigious faculties to share whether or not they thought “calling for the genocide of Jews” was in opposition to their codes of conduct. Finally, strain from Stefanik and different GOP leaders resulted within the presidents of Harvard and the College of Pennsylvania to resign.
Consultant Elise Stefanik, a Republican from New York, speaks to members of the media forward of a marketing campaign occasion with former US President Donald Trump (not pictured) at Madison Sq. Backyard in New York on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. (Getty Photographs)
“The work forward is immense as we see antisemitism skyrocketing coupled with 4 years of catastrophically weak US management that considerably weakened our nationwide safety and diminished our standing within the eyes of each allies and adversaries,” Stefanik mentioned in a press release to the New York Put up after information broke she had been tapped for the UN ambassadorship.
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Stefanik would be the first main policymaker to satisfy with Herzog on Tuesday, with their assembly scheduled at 9:00 a.m. EST, The Instances of Israel reported.
Herzog will then reportedly meet with Graham and Biden afterward.
A spokesperson for Graham instructed Fox Information Digital that their assembly was “not but confirmed” however that they have been figuring out scheduling.
Individuals cross by a congratulatory billboard displaying elected U.S. President Donald Trump on November 7, 2024, in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Getty Photographs)
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Herzog’s go to to the U.S. comes amid the Jewish Federations of North America’s Basic Meeting, held Sunday by way of Tuesday within the nation’s capital, throughout which Herzog can be a keynote speaker.
Fox Information Digital reached out to representatives for Stefanik and Herzog however didn’t hear again previous to publication time.
