Shin Bet head Ronen Bar visited Cairo last night (Monday) and met with Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel against the backdrop of tensions between Israel and Egypt regarding the war in Gaza and the possibility of the Israeli army moving to Rafah. Near the Egyptian border - according to a report by the Walla website correspondent.

Two Israeli sources said that Bar, who participated on Sunday with the head of Egyptian intelligence in a summit in Paris on the issue of the kidnapped people, went to Cairo yesterday to discuss issues not related to negotiations for their release, but rather issues related to the situation in Gaza and relations between the two countries.

Among the topics that Barr discussed in Egypt was the situation in the Philadelphia axis - on the Palestinian side of the border between Gaza and Egypt - and how the two countries can cooperate to prevent weapons smuggling into Gaza.

Other topics that the Shin Bet chief discussed with the head of Egyptian intelligence were Egyptian ideas about the “day after” the war in the Gaza Strip, and the Walla website published yesterday about the secret meeting in Riyadh during which the Egyptians discussed with the Palestinians, the Jordanians and the Saudis ways to restore the “Renewable Palestinian Authority" to Gaza.