Abraham Accords
Israel had said earlier this week that it would halt direct flights between the two countries over Shin Bet security concerns and differences between the agency and its Dubai counterparts on aviation-security measures.
Knesset member Ruth Wasserman Lande said that the exchange of knowledge “will contribute to the parties’ understanding of regional challenges such as the Iranian arms race, terrorism and more.”
“You represent the United States of America. Tone down the Judaism in your work,” a U.S. State Department official told David Friedman.
Riyadh’s economic, political and military capabilities mean that its entry into a normalization agreement with Israel would be a regional game-changer.
More than 600,000 people have visited Israel’s pavilion, where the national anthem, “Hatikvah,” was played.
Companies, nonprofits, universities and people cross borders to initiate collaborative projects in water, energy and natural resource management.
Rabbi Dr. Elie Abadie described the Jewish community in the Gulf state to visiting Israeli President Isaac Herzog.
The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, Jordan and Egypt are to be among the participating countries.
“The scholars and fellows program that we’re working on—with a goal of having student and faculty exchange between universities in the region—is something that’s going to be a game-changer because this is bringing a peace between peoples,” said David Aaronson, deputy director of Abraham Accords Peace Institute’s new Israel office.
The Biden administration has signaled that it is working to expand the circle with Muslim-majority countries like Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, the Maldives, Comoros, Kuwait and Qatar.
The ceremony came over a year after the signing of the Abraham Accords that established relations between Israel and Bahrain.
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“To me, what’s very important for people to understand is that it’s a new Middle East, that there aren’t a lot of people who lived through the most recent four years of this Middle East,” Jason Greenblatt tells JNS.
