Israel’s cabinet has approved the establishment of an annual gathering of senior officials from the US and five Middle Eastern countries, namely Israel, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Morocco, and Egypt.
The decision “institutionalizes” the work of the Negev Forum, a six-party meeting held in Sde Boker in southern Israel’s Negev Desert in March 2022, said a statement issued by Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s office.
The Negev Forum will act on the basis of six multilateral working groups in the fields of food security and water, energy, tourism, health, education and tolerance, and regional safety, the office was quoted as saying by Xinhua news agency reported.
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Among the four Arab countries in the forum, the UAE, Bahrain and Morocco normalized ties with Israel in 2020, while Egypt was the first Arab country to sign a peace accord with Israel in 1979.
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