National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir canceled his upcoming trip to the US due to difficulties obtaining a visa, Channel 12 reported on Monday.
The difficulties were reportedly related to the requirement to provide fingerprints to obtain a US visa, Channel 13's Suleiman Maswadeh reported.
Maswadeh noted that, as an Israeli minister traveling for diplomatic purposes, Ben-Gvir should have been traveling on a diplomatic visa and foregone the fingerprinting process.
Ben-Gvir's office released a statement on Monday, according to Channel 13, claiming that the purpose of the trip was in fact personal. The minister did not want to "exploit his status," and therefore decided to travel on a regular tourist visa.
Ben-Gvir: 'Trump's agreement does not bind us'
Earlier on Monday, Ben-Gvir said in an X/Twitter post that Israel is not bound to US President Donald Trump's US-Iran ceasefire agreement.
"Trump's agreement does not bind us. Israel is not subject to the United States, and we are an independent and sovereign nation," he said.
"We are not partners to this agreement that does not ensure our security, and it does not bind us in any way," continued Ben-Gvir. "We must not compromise on anything less than the dismantling of Hezbollah, we must not withdraw from any territory that our fighters have captured and cleared of terror infrastructure, we must not return to a situation where thousands of terrorists sit on the fences of northern settlements, and certainly we must not remain silent for a moment in the face of fire directed at the State of Israel."
Aaron Glick contributed to this report.