"Next week at the White House we’ll be having a signing between the UAE and Israel, and we could have another country added into that. Countries are lining up to go into it," American president says.
PM Netanyahu's adviser and an Emirati minister held secret meetings in London, Abu Dhabi and Nicosia for years an in effort to foster normalization between the Jewish state and the Gulf sheikdom.
At a video conference of foreign ministers, the Palestinian leadership softens its own censure of the UAE for the US-brokered Aug. 13 accord, which is to be formalized at a signing ceremony at the White House next week, but to no avail.
The ceremony comes just a month after an agreement to establish full diplomatic relations was announced on Aug. 13.
Israeli model poses during a desert shoot alongside a UAE-based model known as Anastasia.
Bank Leumi Chairman Dr. Samer Haj Yehia and Bank Hapoalim CEO Dov Kotler will lead to separate delegations to Abu Dhabi and Dubai in first-ever visit of this kind. First Abu Dhabi Bank, the UAE’s largest lender, said last week it would open discussions with Hapoalim and Leumi.
The highlight of this collaboration stands to be DeserTech – an international innovation center focused on desert climate change.
"Our national cause faces various plots and dangers," Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas tells Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh and Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ziyad al-Nakhalah.
“There are too many conflicts in the region and it’s high time to look forward to sustainable ways forward and hope for the future.”
"This is not the West coming to enlighten the natives, so to speak. This is two different cultures, and they need to learn from each other," says University of Haifa President Ron Robin.
