Back from a recent visit with Jewish business leaders in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, Rabbi Steven Burg, CEO of Jerusalem-based religious Zionist group Aish Global, called the Saudi kingdom "amazing" in an interview with i24NEWS on Thursday.
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He said that in Saudi Arabia, he saw a place that was moving forward and that the business community there wanted to move away from oil and toward a better economic situation.
While Riyadh has yet to sign on to the Abraham Accords, Burg said the people he spoke to in Saudi Arabia said that normalizing ties with Israel was "only a matter of time."
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"It may take a couple of years. It is a conservative society, and they need to move the country forward, but the bottom line is that Iran is everyone's common issue. They are looking around and saying, 'Israel really is a place where we can get an economic benefit.'"
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He noted that being openly Jewish and pro-Israel in the kingdom was not a problem for the group.
"They are very fascinated by what is happening here [in Israel], and they are kind of waiting for us to move forward," Burg said.
This article was first published by i24NEWS.
