Secretary of State Marco Rubio said earlier this month that Washington was aiming to get the new governance bodies in place “very soon.”
Rubio will meet with Netanyahu ahead of the Israeli prime minister’s sit-down with the president.
While the U.S. may push its ally to move ahead in Gaza, the conversation is also expected to feature mounting Israeli concerns over Iran.
Netanyahu is expected to make the case to Trump that Iran’s expansion of its ballistic missile program poses a threat that could necessitate swift action, NBC News reported earlier this month.
Israeli officials have grown increasingly concerned that Tehran was expanding production of its ballistic missile program, which was damaged by Israeli military strikes earlier this year, and are preparing to brief Trump about options for attacking it again, according to a person with direct knowledge of the plans and four former U.S. officials briefed on the plans.
The Israeli leader is expected to present Trump with options for the U.S. to join or assist in any new military operations, the sources said.
But Trump might take some convincing.
Although the U.S. conducted strikes on Iran’s major nuclear enrichment facilities in a joint operation with Israel in June, the president has hinted recently he might be open to returning to talks with Tehran.
Julie Tsirkin, Gordon Lubold, Courtney Kube, Dan De Luce and Carol E. Lee contributed.
