Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly plans to fly tomorrow to the United Arab Emirates for a historic first visit and meet with Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Mohammed bin Zayed. Netanyahu’s office has not yet confirmed the news.
Netanyahu has postponed the visit to the Emirates three times. Originally, Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi was set to be the first Israeli minister to visit the Emirates, shortly after the September 2020 signing of the normalization agreement. He was invited to participate at a regional ministerial meeting there but Netanyahu halted the plan, banning any ministerial visits there or in Bahrain before he made one of his own. His office then scheduled a three-day December visit to both countries, where the prime minister was set to inaugurate Israel’s two new embassies.
