The meeting, the first public one between the two men, is to pave the way to ending a 46-year-old state of war between their countries.
The king was accompanied by his American-born wife, Queen Noor. The summit will mark the culmination of a week in which Jordanian-Israeli peace talks shifted from Washington to the border between the countries last Monday and Tuesday, the first such talk on home territory.
Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres held peace talks in Jordan on Wednesday, the first time an Israeli leader had publicly visited the kingdom.
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