Quds (Jerusalem), May 26, 2010, SPA -- U.S. President Barack Obama has invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House next week, Israeli government sources said on Wednesday. Obama will host Netanyahu on Tuesday and a formal announcement was likely later in the day after White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, on a visit to Israel for his teenage son's Bar Mitzvah, a Jewish coming-of-age ceremony, meets the prime minister, the sources was quoted as saying by Reuters. The trip to Washington was tagged on to a visit by Netanyahu, beginning on Thursday, to France, where he will attend a ceremony welcoming Israel to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, and to Canada. He last saw Obama in March in a low-profile White House meeting that was portrayed in Israel as a snub to Netanyahu because it did not include the usual photo-opportunity afforded visiting foreign leaders.
