On Monday, about 700 people are expected to gather in Jerusalem’s upscale Arnona neighborhood to celebrate the relocation of the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv, a controversial move intended to recognize the holy city as Israel’s rightful capital. Donald Trump will not be in attendance for the ribbon cutting, though the event will have his personal imprimatur. Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, the president’s son-in-law and eldest daughter, will be part of the U.S. delegation, along with U.S. ambassador David Friedman, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, and special representative for international negotiations Jason Greenblatt. The group will leave on a State Department plane Saturday, attend a reception hosted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday, and return to Washington in time for work on Tuesday.

The trip is also something of a return to the forefront for Kushner, who has been mostly out of the public eye in recent months. When his father-in-law brought him on as a senior adviser, last year, endeavoring to bring peace to the Middle East was perhaps the most ambitious item in Kushner’s comically sprawling West Wing portfolio. But it turned the 37-year-old real-estate heir into a political celebrity within the American Jewish community. And when the Trump administration announced its plan to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem late last year, just before the White House’s Hanukkah party, sources told me at the time that Kushner, an Orthodox Jew, was treated as a hero. It is natural, then, that he would make the trip, alongside Greenblatt, who has been leading peace talks, which have stalled since the embassy announcement. Ivanka Trump’s attendance was less expected, but it was a strategic decision, according to a person close to the couple. The embassy opening is very important to President Trump, this person said, and Ivanka’s presence suggests that this is his achievement; both aides are representing the boss back home. “This is the president’s accomplishment, not a Jared accomplishment. This wasn’t a Jared initiative that Jared is basking in.”

It’s been a long year for Kushner. In February, his high-level security clearance was downgraded as part of a newly instated policy impacting anyone who had not yet passed their background checks. (Kushner has updated his disclosure forms at least 40 times since Trump took office.) In the aftermath of the Rob Porter scandal, in what was widely seen as a personal dig, he lost access to the presidential daily briefing. He remains a subject of inquiry by special counsel Robert Mueller for his contacts with Russians during the 2016 campaign, and some in the White House have speculated that his influence has been further reined in with the arrival of Mike Pompeo as secretary of state and John Bolton as national security adviser, putting an end to his diplomatic freelancing with foreign leaders. After news broke about his meetings with banking executives who went on to fund his family’s real-estate company, many wondered if he had become too radioactive to continue to work in the administration. Meanwhile, Kushner’s father sat for two media interviews in which he attempted to take responsibility for the family’s decision to purchase 666 Fifth Avenue. As my colleague William D. Cohan has reported, many in the commercial real-estate world assumed that his dad was laying the ground work for Kushner to return to the company in the near future.

Amid the chaos, Kushner, once a ubiquitous presence, has quietly disappeared from the spotlight. For one, new scandals pushed Kushner out of the headlines. The Stormy Daniels saga took over and Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen had his home, hotel, and office raided by federal agents; former N.S.C. head H.R. McMaster got the axe; James Comey came out with his book; White House lawyer Ty Cobb resigned; and Trump brought on Rudy Giuliani to deal with Mueller and do his cable-news bidding. The departure of Kushner and Ivanka’s in-house spokesperson, Josh Raffel, a formidable behind-the-scenes player in Beltway media, also meant that reporters no longer had a touchpoint for daily Kushner-related West Wing news. “God is good,” the person close to the couple said, in explaining the break from the spotlight.