An official Israeli delegation is slated to visit Morocco next Tuesday, Israel Hayom has learned.
National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat will head the delegation, which will also include other senior officials. The Israeli officials are expected to be in Rabat for one day.
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As with previous visits to countries the peace deals with which were brokered by the Trump administration, senior American officials will join the Israeli delegation.
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner will lead a US delegation, and will take a direct flight from Tel Aviv to Rabat as a sign of progress after the Israel-Morocco deal that Kushner helped broker.
Kushner, Middle East envoy Avi Berkowitz and Adam Boehler, chief executive officer of the US International Development Finance Corporation, will arrive in Israel on Monday.
While in Jerusalem, Kushner is to hold talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The Israel-Morocco deal was the fourth the United States helped broker, following similar agreements between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan.
As part of the agreement, Trump agreed to recognize Morocco's sovereignty over the Western Sahara, where a decades-old territorial dispute has pitted Morocco against Algeria–backed Polisario Front, a breakaway movement that seeks to establish an independent state in the territory.
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Next week's visit will take place against the backdrop of reports that a senior adviser to the leader of a large Muslim-majority country in Asia has recently visited Israel despite the two countries having no diplomatic relations.
