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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said Wednesday (January 21, 2026) helium had agreed to join U.S. President Donald Trump's Board of Peace, aft his bureau earlier criticized constitution of the board's enforcement committee. The committee included Turkey, a determination rival.
A connection from Netanyahu's bureau said helium had accepted Mr. Trump's invitation. The Board of Peace led by Mr. Trump was primitively envisioned arsenic a tiny radical of satellite leaders overseeing the Gaza ceasefire plan. The Trump administration's ambitions person ballooned into a much sprawling concept, with Mr. Trump extending invitations to dozens of nations and hinting it volition soon broker planetary conflicts, similar a pseudo-U.N. Security Council.
More details were expected erstwhile Mr. Trump participates successful an announcement astir the Board of Peace connected Thursday (January 21, 2026) astatine the World Economic Forum gathering successful Davos, Switzerland.
The board's charter has not yet been made public, but a draught mentation obtained by The Associated Press indicates overmuch of the powerfulness volition beryllium concentrated successful the hands of Mr. Trump himself. A $1 cardinal publication secures imperishable membership, the draught said.
So far, astatine slightest 8 countries — Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Hungary, Argentina and Belarus person agreed to instrumentality part.
Invitation letters from Mr. Trump besides person been sent to Paraguay's person Santiago Peña, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Plus, Russia, Israel, India, Slovenia, Thailand and the European Union's enforcement limb person said they received invitations.
The Kremlin is present “studying the details” and volition question clarity of “all the nuances” successful contacts with the U.S., Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said. Mr. Trump confirmed connected Monday (January 19, 2026) nighttime that Russian President Vladimir Putin had been invited.
It was not instantly wide however galore oregon which different leaders would person invitations.
The enforcement board's members see U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Trump envoy Steve Witkoff, Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, erstwhile British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Apollo Global Management CEO Marc Rowan, World Bank President Ajay Banga, and Trump's lawman nationalist information advisor Robert Gabriel.
The White House besides announced the members of different board, the Gaza Executive Board, which, according to the ceasefire, volition beryllium successful complaint of implementing the pugnacious 2nd signifier of the agreement. That includes deploying an planetary information force, disarming Hamas and rebuilding the war-devastated territory.
Nickolay Mladenov, a erstwhile Bulgarian person and U.N. Mideast envoy, is to service arsenic the Gaza enforcement board's typical overseeing day-to-day matters. Additional members include: Witkoff, Kushner, Blair, Rowan, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan; Qatari diplomat Ali Al-Thawadi; Hassan Rashad, manager of Egypt's General Intelligence Agency; Emirati curate Reem Al-Hashimy; Israeli businessman Yakir Gabay; and Sigrid Kaag, the Netherlands' erstwhile lawman Prime Minister and a Mideast expert.
The committee besides volition supervise a recently appointed committee of Palestinian technocrats who volition beryllium moving Gaza's day-to-day affairs.
