Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Trump spoke again this evening, the Prime Minister's Office says. Netanyahu highlighted the severity of Turkish President Erdogan's recent anti-Israel statements and the need for security zones on Israel's borders; Trump briefed him on U.S. moves in the Gulf.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump held another phone call this evening — their third tonight — continuing the sequence of contacts first reported by The Zioneer at 22:52 Jerusalem and then at 22:55 Jerusalem. The latest readout from the Prime Minister's Office adds that Trump updated Netanyahu on U.S. diplomatic and military moves in the Persian Gulf, while Netanyahu again highlighted the severity of recent anti-Israel statements by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and reiterated the need for security zones along Israel's borders.
The thread began at 22:52 Jerusalem, when The Zioneer reported a confirmation from the Prime Minister's Office that another call had taken place and that the sides agreed on continued coordination. Immediately after, at 22:55 Jerusalem, an initial report by Amit Segal (N12) specified that Netanyahu had raised Erdogan's rhetoric and border security zones. The Prime Minister's Office readout — shared at 22:51 Jerusalem on the desk's timeline — formally corroborated those topics and added the detail that Trump briefed Netanyahu on U.S. moves in the Gulf. Over the next minutes, the reported at least three separate calls between the leaders this evening, each reinforcing the same agenda: Erdogan's hostility, border security, and Gulf coordination.
The calls follow weeks of escalating U.S. military operations against Iran, as The Zioneer has reported, including a context of direct Israeli-Iranian strikes in recent weeks. A source in the Prime Minister's Office told the Times of Israel on Jun 10 that Netanyahu and Trump were "fully coordinated" amid those strikes. A later report from Sun Jun 14 at 20:28 Jerusalem described a forthcoming call between the leaders as potentially the most hard-fought yet, set against reports that the diplomatic endgame on Iran was accelerating with Israel largely sidelined. Tonight's sequence — three calls in rapid succession — suggests intense, ongoing dialogue rather than a single decisive conversation.
What remains unverified: the precise content of each call beyond the official readout, including whether the leaders discussed specific military timelines or operational details regarding Iran. The desk has not independently confirmed the reported concern in Jerusalem over Turkish threats beyond the official Israeli framing, nor the exact nature of the U.S. moves in the Gulf alluded to by Trump.
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