Arab Israelis
Riyadh is not pressuring Jerusalem to make hefty concessions to Ramallah.
Last week, Tourism Minister Haim Katz became the first Israeli minister to publicly visit the kingdom.
Shlomo Karhi is attending a global conference of the Universal Postal Union in Saudi Arabia.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield took aim at Palestinian Authority leader, calling his recent comments “blatantly antisemitic,” which “wrongly maligned the Jewish people and distorted the Holocaust.”
The legislation comes amid a crime wave in Arab communities.
Israel is “at the cusp of an even more dramatic breakthrough: an historic peace with Saudi Arabia,” the Israeli prime minister said. “It will encourage a broader reconciliation between Judaism and Islam, between Jerusalem and Mecca, between the descendants of Isaac and the descendants of Ishmael.”
Israeli officials are “quietly working” with the White House to develop a “U.S.-run, uranium-enrichment operation” in the kingdom.
Mohammed bin Salman dismissed reports Riyadh suspended U.S.-led normalization talks.
The leaders discussed an economic corridor linking Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
Israel’s Government Press Office released a transcript of the Israeli prime minister’s remarks.
“If I can see peace being made in the Middle East perhaps … we can have a similar peace accord in the U.S. congress,” said Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.).
The son of immigrants who fled to Britain from pogroms sees his family history as an integral part of his political approach.