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#John Boehner to travel to Israel to meet with Netanyahu

House Speaker John Boehner will head to Israel at the end of the month and meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (AP Photo)

House Speaker John Boehner will head to Israel at the end of the month.

The trip, though planned a few weeks ago, has not yet been publicly announced. The Ohio Republican will head to Israel on March 31, heading a delegation of Republican lawmakers, senior Israeli officials told Haaretz Friday .

According to officials, the final terms of the visit were agreed upon during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's trip to the U.S. earlier in the month to address Congress on the threat of a nuclear Iran.

Boehner's trip may or may not cause new drama — as Boehner was who invited Netanyahu to speak to Congress on March 3. Boehner explicitly invited the prime minister without communicating the plans with the White House, something that upset both President Obama and numerous Democratic members of Congress.

After tensions simmered briefly, they flared back up again after Obama didn't immediately congratulate Netanyahu on his re-election win this week. On the eve of the election, Netanyahu said he would never support a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians, something the White House condemned.

Netanyahu walked back his comments in an interview with NBC Thursday, saying, "America has no greater ally than Israel and Israel has no greater ally than the United States."

Obama and Netanyahu then spoke by phone Thursday afternoon.