With Congress out of session in Washington this week, a group of high-powered American political players have just arrived in Israel.

They include:

• Mike Pompeo, former U.S. secretary of state and CIA director.
• Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
• Senator James Risch, the new head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
• Senator Tom Cotton, who serves on both the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Senate Intelligence Committee.
• David Friedman, the former U.S. ambassador to Israel during the Trump-Pence administration.

For the next few days, the leaders are participating in an off-the-record forum called the “Hartog National Security Conference,” which is being held at the Setai Hotel in Tel Aviv.