Opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu will leave to Washington on Monday for meetings with US Vice President Dick Cheney and senators about the threat from Iran.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert spoke to Netanyahu for five minutes on the phone on Sunday and briefed him ahead of the trip. Netanyahu said that he would raise the issue of Israel's kidnapped soldiers in all of his meetings in Washington.
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