Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is scheduled to travel to Jerusalem on Dec. 22 for a lighting visit and meeting with Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, with the “Mikropolitikos” column in the Athens daily “Ta Nea” also pointing to the holding of a trilateral meeting between the leaders of Greece, Israel and Cyprus on that date.

The timing of the proposed meeting is crucial, given the fragile Trump-engineered peace agreement to end the Gaza war, but also because Athens is particularly eager to promote multi-lateral cooperation schemes in the eastern Mediterranean, and at the same time staking out a central role in the latter.

If diplomatic sources prove accurate, then Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides will join host Netanyahu and Mitsotakis in Jerusalem on Dec. 22.

Speaking at a Q&A discussion with “To Vima” publisher Yiannis Pretenteris last week in Athens, part of the Athens Policy Dialogues conference, Mitsotakis reiterated that the “Greece-Israel strategic relationship” has “taken root for good…both independently, but also within the framework of multilateral cooperation, such as the ‘3+1’ scheme – which  has also garnered Washington’s attention.”

Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis, left, with “To Vima” publisher Yiannis Pretenteris, December 2025 in Athens, Greece

The Greek leader also said the ambitious but still unsettled prospect of an undersea power cable linking the grids of Israel with Cyprus and then onto mainland Greece across the breadth of the eastern Mediterranean, the Great Sea Interconnection (GSI) would again be discussed at a forthcoming trilateral meeting.

While in the Mideast country, Mitsotakis will also reportedly travel to the West Bank for a meeting in Ramallah with the long-time Palestinian National Authority (PNA) president Mahmoud Abbas.