President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, arrived in the Middle East on Wednesday for a 24-hour visit created to breathe new life into long-stalled Israel-Palestinian peace talks.
Greenblatt arrived in Israel ahead of Kushner on Sunday and met with Netanyahu, Abbas and other officials.
Netanyahu went on to say that Trump's visit to Israel last month was a "historic trip, with fantastic warmth, and made an indelible impression on the people of Israel".
Trump's Special Envoy Jared Kushner meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, June 21, 2017.
Kushner is now under scrutiny as part of the investigation into whether Trump officials colluded with Russian Federation to sway the outcome of the presidential election.
Kushner, accompanied by Trump's Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt, was also meeting Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas in the West Bank on Wednesday.
Washington's ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, also attended the sit-down with Netanyahu.
According to US officials, the visit comes as part of Washington's ongoing efforts to revive the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace processes.
The US delegation visiting the region was aiming to gain support from both parties in an attempt to revive the peace process under Trump's presidency.
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He further argued that, in a democracy, the expression of the majority that participates in the electoral processes prevails. The referendum has sparked dozens of memes that turned viral, including some showing the tropical island covered in snow.
Kushner arrived a day after Israel began construction on the first new Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank in 25 years.
President Donald Trump has called it the "deal of the century" and said if Kushner couldn't produce a peace deal, nobody could.
This month marked the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Mideast war a seminal event in which Israel captured the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza Strip.
Reporters from the USA were barred from covering the meetings and did not have an opportunity to ask Kushner questions, although Israeli reporters were allowed in.
Trump administration officials have said that if they are going to make progress on peace, they do not want to get bogged down in process but to move rapidly on tackling what are known as "final status" issues, the complexities around Jerusalem, Palestinian refugees, water resources, security and borders.
Mr Greenblatt landed in Israel on Monday for preliminary talks in both Jerusalem and Ramallah, and will also remain for follow-up discussions after Mr Kushner has left, officials told Reuters.
He continued to defend paying salaries to terrorists and their families even after a tense meeting in Ramallah with senior Trump administration officials who demanded his stop that practice. Kushner said he was personally asked by Trump to express his condolences to her grieving family. Yonatan Netanyahu, who was killed in the 1976 Entebbe rescue raid, said that "time after time, murderers have congregated around that gate and attacked there".
"Kushner and Greenblatt accepted Israel's position regarding payments to Palestinian prisoners", a source told Ynet, "and described it as a means of inciting terror, demanding it be stopped".
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