{"id":201346,"date":"2025-12-29T20:29:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T20:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=201346"},"modified":"2025-12-29T20:29:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T20:29:25","slug":"germanys-merz-makes-first-visit-to-israel-as-chancellor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=201346","title":{"rendered":"Germany&#8217;s Merz makes first visit to Israel as chancellor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German Chancellor Friedrich Merz heads to Israel on Saturday for his first visit since taking office, aiming to reaffirm traditionally solid ties that were shaken during the Gaza war.Merz stopped in Jordan briefly on Saturday for talks with King Abdullah II, which Merz told reporters afterwards had focused largely on the fragile peace process in Israel and the Palestinian territories&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/originals\/2025\/12\/germanys-merz-makes-first-visit-israel-chancellor\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German Chancellor Friedrich Merz heads to Israel on Saturday for his first visit since taking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":201347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/201346-germanys-merz-makes-first-visit-to-israel-as-chancellor.jpg",1200,628,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/201346-germanys-merz-makes-first-visit-to-israel-as-chancellor-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/201346-germanys-merz-makes-first-visit-to-israel-as-chancellor-300x157.jpg",300,157,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/201346-germanys-merz-makes-first-visit-to-israel-as-chancellor-768x402.jpg",640,335,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/201346-germanys-merz-makes-first-visit-to-israel-as-chancellor-1024x536.jpg",640,335,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/201346-germanys-merz-makes-first-visit-to-israel-as-chancellor.jpg",1200,628,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/201346-germanys-merz-makes-first-visit-to-israel-as-chancellor.jpg",1200,628,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/201346-germanys-merz-makes-first-visit-to-israel-as-chancellor-1024x536.jpg",1024,536,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/201346-germanys-merz-makes-first-visit-to-israel-as-chancellor-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/201346-germanys-merz-makes-first-visit-to-israel-as-chancellor-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=14\" rel=\"category\">BREAKING NEWS<\/a>","tag_info":"BREAKING NEWS","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/201347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}