Israel warned US of sniper, knife, missile threats against Trump; White House says could not verify. The warnings were passed to US intelligence agencies and, in some cases, directly to senior White House officials, with the most detailed alert coming ahead of Trump's trip to Turkey for the Nato summit in July.

Despite the lack of verification, the White House and Secret Service took precautionary measures, including moving Trump from Air Force One to another aircraft during the trip. The warnings began before the 12-day war in June 2025 and intensified ahead of the US decision to go to war with Iran in February, according to the sources.

The most detailed warning came ahead of the Nato summit in Ankara in July, when Israeli officials told the White House that Iran could try to kill Trump while he travelled aboard Air Force One, potentially using a shoulder-launched missile, the US official and another person familiar with the matter said. Despite the lack of independent verification, the warnings prompted the White House and Secret Service to take additional precautions.

During Trump's Turkey trip, the Secret Service carried out an unusual deception operation by moving him from Air Force One to another aircraft for his flight out of the country, according to the sources. CIA had low confidence in some Israeli intelligenceThe US intelligence community has long assessed that Iran wants to retaliate against Trump over the 2020 US drone strike that killed Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani.

However, the CIA has been unable to corroborate some of the specific threats against Trump's life shared by Israeli intelligence since early last year, the officials said. In several instances during the two US military offensives against Iran, the CIA assessed that it had "low confidence" in Israeli intelligence concerning threats posed by Iran, including alleged plans to assassinate Trump, according to one former US official and another person familiar with the matter.

It remained unclear how widely those assessments had circulated within the Trump administration. The warnings also exposed broader differences between US and Israeli intelligence assessments on Iran.

Earlier this year, US intelligence agencies assessed that Iran was not actively building a nuclear weapon, while Israel maintained that Tehran posed an urgent threat. Trump nevertheless proceeded with strikes against Iran in February.

Reuters had previously reported that intelligence shared by Israel about alleged Iranian attempts to assassinate Trump was among the information he considered before launching the military campaign. A spokesperson for the Israeli embassy rejected the suggestion that Israel was using intelligence to influence US policy towards Iran."