Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar was scheduled to arrive in Germany on Wednesday for an official diplomatic visit, amid efforts by E.U. member states to isolate Israel and following the harshest condemnations yet by Berlin of Israel’s war actions in Gaza.
Sa’ar is scheduled to hold high-level meetings with key German officials, including Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul, Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt, Education Minister Karin Prien, Bavarian Minister-President Markus Söder and chairman of the Bundestag Foreign Affairs Committee Armin Laschet, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said in a statement Tuesday.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz last week criticized Israel’s actions in Gaza, using the harshest public statements to date by a German senior official about the campaign to di