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Report: Former Trump campaign aides in Israel to meet Netanyahu

The Israeli premier is reportedly considering adding Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie to his team ahead of Israel’s expected third round of elections in March.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on Dec. 8, 2019. Photo by Marc Israel Sellem/POOL.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting, at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem on Dec. 8, 2019. Photo by Marc Israel Sellem/POOL.

Two of U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign aides are visiting Israel this week to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Jewish Insider reported on Tuesday.

The former aides, Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie, are being considered as candidates to join Netanyahu’s re-election campaign, according to the report.

Republican pollster John McLaughlin, who worked for Netanyahu during Israel’s last two elections, is not going to be involved in the upcoming election, according to the report, but will be working on Trump’s re-election run for the 2020 presidential race.

“It’s been a humbling honor to work for such a historic and successful leader over these past 15 years,” McLaughlin told the Jewish Insider. “I was just happy to be on his team. He has made the world a safer and better place.”

“Behind El-Sayed’s political rise sits a much older and more entrenched institutional network,” the Texas senator said, of the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan.
The announcement comes as Israeli banks are expected to end correspondent banking services to Palestinian counterparts.
“My jaw kind of hit the floor for a second,” an attendee of the event told JNS.
Alyza Lewin, president of U.S. affairs at the Combat Antisemitism Movement, stated that El-Sayed’s victory “should raise alarm bells for Jewish Americans across the country and everyone who believes in civil rights for all.”