Foreign Ministry Director-General Alon Ushpiz will travel to Bahrain on Monday to meet with representatives of foreign ministries of countries that participated in the Negev Summit that took place in Israel last March.
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The summit, which was hosted by Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, brought together Israeli and Arab leaders and was attended by the United Arab Emirates' Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Bahrain's Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani, Morocco's Nasser Bourita, Egypt's Sameh Shoukry and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry said on Twitter that in March, the states decided the summit would become a permanent institution called the Negev Forum, which will be "an ongoing process based on six working groups": food and water security, energy, health, education and tolerance, tourism, and regional security.
It said the goal of Monday's meeting was to "determine the working groups' process" and "serve as a milestone ahead of the US President's expected visit to the Middle East."
President Joe Biden is expected to visit Israel, and later Saudi Arabia, in mid-July.
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