Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today held his first meeting with the new Emirati ambassador to Israel, Mohammad Mahmoud Al Khajah, following the normalization agreement between the Jewish state and United Arab Emirates.“We are changing the Middle East, we are changing the world,” Netanyahu told Al Khajah, according to a statement from his office.
The two discussed “the potential in developing joint regional and bilateral projects in a broad range of fields,” the Prime Minister’s Office said.The meeting was also attended by Netanyahu’s National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat and other senior officials.
There was no immediate statement from Al Khajah on the meeting.
Earlier this month, Netanyahu postponed what would have been his first official visit to the UAE since the establishment of official diplomatic relations, and no future date for the visit has yet been announced. The Prime Minister’s Office said at the time that the decision to postpone the trip indefinitely was made due to the closing down of air travel to and from Israel, as part of a national lockdown aimed at preventing coronavirus carriers arriving from abroad.
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