The Israelis, many holding hostage posters and all wearing yellow scarves, were called on stage by Steve Witkoff, Trump’s Middle East envoy who played a crucial role in finalizing the current ...

Witkoff, who is Jewish and who has been friends with Trump since the 1980s when he bought Trump a sandwich after they worked on a real estate transaction, has no Middle East diplomatic experience.

JERUSALEM/CAIRO, Jan 11 (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday amid a push to secure a ceasefire in ...

“But we have to make sure that the implementation goes well,” Witkoff said on Fox News’s America’s Newsroom. “Because if it goes well, we’ll get into phase two, and we’re going to ...