{"id":1111214,"date":"2021-12-12T10:28:40","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T15:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1111214"},"modified":"2021-12-12T10:28:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T15:28:42","slug":"in-historic-first-israeli-pm-naftali-bennett-flies-to-uae-to-meet-bin-zayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-historic-first-israeli-pm-naftali-bennett-flies-to-uae-to-meet-bin-zayed\/","title":{"rendered":"In Historic First, Israeli PM Naftali Bennett Flies to UAE to Meet bin Zayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fin-historic-first-israeli-pm-naftali-bennett-flies-to-uae-to-meet-bin-zayed%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1111214&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/PM-Bennett-Meets-with-uae-diplomacy-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett flew to Abu Dhabi to meet with Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan \u2014 the first official visit of an Israeli leader to the United Arab Emirates \u2014 his office said in a surprise announcement Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe leaders will discuss deepening ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, with an emphasis on economic and regional issues that will contribute to prosperity, welfare and strengthening stability between the countries,\u201d the Prime Minister\u2019s Office said in a statement.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The visit comes as Israel and Gulf nations up the rhetoric against Iran\u2019s nuclear program. Negotiations between Tehran and world powers were stonewalled, again, last week.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Israel and the UAE signed a normalization deal under the Trump-led Abraham Accords last year.<\/p>\n<p>Israel also normalized relations with Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan as part of the accords.<\/p>\n<p>The visit follows an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/middle-east\/2021\/10\/19\/uae-crown-prince-invites-israeli-pm-bennett-to-first-state-visit\/\">invitation<\/a> extended by the crown prince by the UAE\u2019s Ambassador to Israel Muhammad Mahmoud Al Khajah in October.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/breaking-news\/yair-lapid-to-visit-uae-in-historic-first-671608\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visited the&nbsp;<span class=\"il\">UAE<\/span><\/a>&nbsp;in June to inaugurate the Israeli embassy in&nbsp;<span class=\"il\">Abu<\/span>&nbsp;<span class=\"il\">Dhabi<\/span>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/middle-east\/2021\/09\/30\/in-historic-first-israels-fm-lapid-meets-bahraini-king-in-manama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">met with<\/a>&nbsp;Bahraini King Hamid bin Issa al Khalifa in Manama in September.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Israeli President Isaac Herzog spoke with the crown prince for the first time to discuss strengthening security collaboration between the countries as well as a free trade agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett flew to Abu Dhabi to meet with Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan \u2014 the first official visit of an Israeli leader to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1111214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1111214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1111214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1111214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1111214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}