Benjamin Netanyahu meets our Jewish leader and has been criticising him.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not expected to meet with the head of American Jewish organizations during his week of visiting Washington, D.C.

Netanyahu arrived in the United States on Sunday in honor of meeting President Donald Trump on Tuesday. Over the week, Netanyahu met with a group of senior evangelical leaders at the beginning of his trip.

Two senior leaders of the Jewish organization confirmed in a post Thursday that Netanyahu had no plans to meet them.

“I was completely disappointed that Netanyahu spent a week in the United States, but I will not meet the head of the Jewish organization,” one of them said. , raising billions of dollars for Israel and lobbying for Israel’s support at both local, national and international levels,” the leader said.

The second Jewish leader revealed that the Prime Minister is planning to meet the young Jewish leader, but he said, “It’s satisfying that Netanyahu is meeting young Jews in the DC region. But we will benefit from this kind of conference – and Israel will benefit as well. Then.”

The second leader said, “While he supports Israel regardless of his decision on who should meet, the Israeli Prime Minister has always met with American Jewish leaders while visiting America. “In a time when our enemies are trying to destroy us, unity is what we need,” the second leader concluded.

The Israeli Prime Minister has always maintained informal protocols. When you visit diplomatically in a country abroad, they always meet with the Jewish community or at least its leadership.

Netanyahu’s complicated past with our Jewish leadership

Netanyahu has a rocky relationship with the leadership of American Jews, essentially the largest Jewish community outside of Israel. A few years ago, during the law to establish an egalitarian prayer square on the Western Wall, when the law was then frozen and later cancelled, there was a dispute between most of these leaders and the prime minister. there was.

Afterwards, Netanyahu’s envoy to the United States, Ron Dahmer encouraged the creation of a new organisation primarily of reform and conservative American rabbis.

In 2023, after the anti-judicial reform protests began, many diaspora Jews and their leaders criticized Netanyahu and his government.

The Jerusalem Post contacted the Prime Minister’s Office, but has not received a response.