The Prime Minister of the State of Israel, Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu, will pay an official visit to Athens on 2-4 January 2020.

The American Chambers of Greece, Cyprus and Israel jointly welcomed on Friday the signing by US President Donald Trump of the EastMed Act, which they said "heralds a new era in the relations between the United States and Greece, Israel and Cyprus."

Israel opposes an accord signed last month between Libya and Turkey mapping out maritime boundaries in the eastern Mediterranean, but the deal was unlikely to lead to a conflict with Turkey, Israel’s foreign minister said on Monday.