--- title: Jared Kushner Traveling to Middle East for Peace Talks description: White House adviser and President Trump's son-in-law will travel to the Middle East on Wednesday for peace talks canonical: https://time.com/4823327/jared-kushner-middle-east-travel-peace-deal-israeli-palestinian/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-19T11:49:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:54:14.813Z article:section: Politics og:title: Jared Kushner Is Headed to the Middle East og:description: In search of an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal og:url: https://time.com/4823327/jared-kushner-middle-east-travel-peace-deal-israeli-palestinian/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbe43242c0b56c752/6988d23de76ad25cfc62df65/gettyimages-692698050.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: President Trump Announces The Air Traffic Control Reform Initiative og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jared Kushner Is Headed to the Middle East twitter:description: In search of an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbe43242c0b56c752/6988d23de76ad25cfc62df65/gettyimages-692698050.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jared Kushner Is Going to the Middle East In Search of Israeli-Palestinian Peace Deal ## Video: President Trump Asks Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu to 'Hold Back' on Settlement Expansion [Watch (HLS stream): President Trump Asks Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu to 'Hold Back' on Settlement Expansion](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/wQVBFP3e.m3u8) (1:33)  _Published 2017-02-15. President Donald Trump is asking Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to "hold back" on settlements for a bit._ by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Jun 19, 2017 11:49 AM UTC  Jared Kushner, senior White House adviser, arrives to a press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, June 5, 2017\. Bloomberg—Bloomberg via Getty Images Jared Kushner, senior White House adviser, arrives to a press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, June 5, 2017\. Bloomberg—Bloomberg via Getty ImagesBloomberg—Bloomberg via Getty Images by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Jun 19, 2017 11:49 AM UTC President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser [Jared Kushner](http://time.com/4800796/the-trials-of-jared-kushner/) will travel to the Middle East on Wednesday as part of an attempt to broker peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Kushner, who has an expansive list of responsibilities under Trump, is traveling to the region with Jason Greenblatt, assistant to the President and special representative for international negotiations. The two will arrive separately—Greenblatt on Monday and Kushner on Wednesday—and both are expected to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem and also with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah_._ The [Wall Street _Journal_](https://www.wsj.com/articles/jared-kushner-to-travel-to-middle-east-in-effort-to-advance-u-s-peace-efforts-1497834180) first reported on the travel. A White House official described the trip as a follow-up to the President’s recent travel to the region. Kushner and Greenblatt will “continue conversations” with both sides in their ongoing pursuit of a peace deal, said the official. “It is important to remember that forging a historic peace agreement will take time and to the extent that there is progress, there are likely to be many visits by both Mr. Kushner and Mr. Greenblatt, sometimes together and sometimes separately, to the region and possibly many trips by Israeli and Palestinian negotiators to Washington, D.C., or other locations as they pursue substantive talks,” the officialcontinued. The trip comes amid news that [some of Kushner’s business deals are being investigated](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/special-counsel-is-investigating-jared-kushners-business-dealings/2017/06/15/5d9a32c6-51f2-11e7-91eb-9611861a988f%5Fstory.html?tid=a%5Finl&utm%5Fterm=.69423c11fb24) as part of the ongoing probe into Russia’s involvement in the 2016 presidential election. _\-with reporting by Alana Abramson_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4823327/jared-kushner-middle-east-travel-peace-deal-israeli-palestinian/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4823327/jared-kushner-middle-east-travel-peace-deal-israeli-palestinian/"},"headline":"Jared Kushner Is Going to the Middle East In Search of Israeli-Palestinian Peace Deal","datePublished":"2017-06-19T11:49:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:54:14.813Z","description":"White House adviser and President Trump's son-in-law will travel to the Middle East on Wednesday for peace talks","url":"https://time.com/4823327/jared-kushner-middle-east-travel-peace-deal-israeli-palestinian/","keywords":["White House","Donald Trump","jared kushner","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbe43242c0b56c752/6988d23de76ad25cfc62df65/gettyimages-692698050.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbe43242c0b56c752/6988d23de76ad25cfc62df65/gettyimages-692698050.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"President Trump Announces The Air Traffic Control Reform Initiative","caption":"President Trump Announces The Air Traffic Control Reform Initiative","creditText":"Bloomberg—Bloomberg via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4823327/jared-kushner-middle-east-travel-peace-deal-israeli-palestinian/","name":"Jared Kushner Is Going to the Middle East In Search of Israeli-Palestinian Peace Deal"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"President Trump Asks Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu to 'Hold Back' on Settlement Expansion","description":"President Donald Trump is asking Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to \"hold back\" on settlements for a bit.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/wQVBFP3e/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2017-02-15T18:53:55.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/wQVBFP3e.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4823327/jared-kushner-middle-east-travel-peace-deal-israeli-palestinian/","duration":"PT1M33S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4823327/jared-kushner-middle-east-travel-peace-deal-israeli-palestinian/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```