Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu kept Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi in the dark about his reported trip to Saudi Arabia with Mossad Chief Yossi Cohen to meet Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman, officials said Monday.
According to senior sources, Gantz told Netanyahu of his intention to form an inquiry committee into the Submarine Affair during a memorial service Sunday for late Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, but the PM inturn did not update him on his planned flight to the Gulf kingdom.