The meeting followed an unprecedented official visit to the city of Ariel by a delegation of senior Trump administration officials and members of Congress led by Johnson. US House Speaker Mike Johnson took part in a historic meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Shiloh on Monday evening,

Johnson was originally planning to visit Israel on June 22, but announced on June 16 that he would be postponing his visit due to the outbreak of the Israel-Iran war. Mike Johnson visited the West Bank,

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Monday led a high-level Republican delegation on a visit to the occupied West Bank, where the second-in-line to the U.S. presidency told a rapt audience in an illegal Jewish settler colony that they are the rightful owners of the Palestinian territory.