{"id":14487,"date":"2025-02-04T20:57:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T18:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rega.news\/?p=14487"},"modified":"2025-02-04T20:57:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T18:57:49","slug":"former-defense-minister-gallant-lands-influential-new-role-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/former-defense-minister-gallant-lands-influential-new-role-in-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Defense Minister Gallant Lands Influential New Role in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of tonight\u2019s (Tuesday) meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump, its been publicly disclosed that former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has taken on a new role in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Gallant will serve as a research fellow at the highly respected Washington Institute for Near East Policy. According to a report by <em>Ynet<\/em>, Gallant will publish articles on Middle Eastern affairs and participate in conferences as part of his tenure. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Not the First Israeli Assigned to the Role<\/strong><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14489\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14489\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2-10.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2-10-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2-10-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14489\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Incoming IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir | Photo: Defense Ministry Spokesperson<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>Gallant is not the first Israeli to be accepted as a research fellow at the institute. He follows a list of senior Israeli security officials, including Gabi Ashkenazi, Amos Yadlin, Yoram Cohen, and the incoming IDF Chief of Staff, Eyal Zamir.<\/p>\n<p>Next week, Gallant is expected to travel to Washington for an orientation visit before formally joining the institute. At this point, it remains unclear whether the former Defense Minister will permanently relocate to Washington or commute between the U.S. and Israel for fulfillment of his new role.<\/p>\n<p>Gallant\u2019s office has not issued any comments on the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alongside the highly anticipated meeting between Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Trump, the former Israeli Defense Minister\u2019s new position in Washington is revealed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":14488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[2264,2092,2031],"class_list":["post-14487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-security","tag-donald-trump","tag-u-s","tag-yoav-gallant"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.7 (Yoast SEO v24.7) - 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