Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seized control of Israel’s back-channel diplomacy after the incident with Tripoli in which Foreign Minister Eli Cohen prematurely published information about a secret meeting with his Libyan counterpart. On Tuesday, Netanyahu declared that all secret diplomatic meetings by any government ministry must be approved by his office in advance. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Eli Cohen assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on March 13, 2023. Mangoush who was fired for meeting Cohen, fled to Turkey on Monday and has reportedly continued on from there to London. He continued, adding that what is “happening today in the Foreign Ministry is very sad.
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