He says he recognises the problems the US has with the system as it currently stands.

18:59 BST 7 April

Benjamin Netanyahu is visiting the White House right now, just four days after Donald Trump shocked the global economy with his aggressive tariff announcement – which includes 17% on Israeli exports to America.

This meeting gives the Israeli prime minister a chance to make an in-person case that those tariffs should be lower.

Israel recently dropped its own tariffs on American imports, although that move did not prevent it from being targeted in the president’s new trade policy.

If Trump is willing to listen – and cut a deal with Israel - it could provide an early example of how, through concessions and personal appeals, a country could extricate itself from the ongoing American trade warfare.

If there’s some kind of big announcement, however, it won’t happen in a formal press conference. The one scheduled for this afternoon was cancelled by the White House – without explanation – about an hour before its scheduled start time.

Instead, the two men will answer questions from the smaller press pool during their sit-down in the Oval Office.

The White House has said more than 50 world leaders have reached out to Trump in the past few days to engage in negotiations. With just two days until those US tariffs go into effect, they are sure to be watching closely to see if anything concrete comes from today’s US-Israel talks – and what lessons they can learn from them.