FBI Director Wray makes surprise Israel stop amid 'elevated threat picture'
9:03 AM 2/15/2024 FBI Director Wray makes surprise Israel stop amid 'elevated threat picture' posted at 13:50:05 UTC via foxnews.com FBI Director Christopher Wray made an unannounced trip to Israel, where he sat in on intelligence meetings before speaking to Fox News. Wray's visit was his first time on the ground in Israel since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack. The FBI director met with his counterparts in Israel's Shin Bet (Israeli intelligence) and others. He spoke to Fox News before boarding a plane to leave the country for Germany for the Munich Security Conference, where he’ll speak Thursday. "We’ve seen a rogues' gallery of foreign terrorist organizations both express support and praise for the Hamas attacks and threaten to attack U.S. interests at home and abroad," Wray said. "We're working with all our partners to confront the elevated threat picture, which includes, I should add, the threats posed by Iran and Hezbollah, both in terms of