DUBAI — The
Israeli Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates,
Amir Hayek, stated in an interview on Thursday, that relations between Israel
and the UAE are currently at their peak on all fronts. He mentioned that trade
reached $2.5 billion last year. In the
first seven months of this year, it reached $1.7 billion, and it is expected to
reach $3 billion by the end of the year.
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He also noted that there are billions in investments, and in
the past year, over 1.1 million Israeli tourists visited the UAE. Hayek
continued by saying that there have been more than 27 agreements signed between
the two countries, with more than 100 agreements set to be signed in the near
future. This also includes more than 106 weekly flights with the UAE and
various partnerships across all fields in cybersecurity,
renewable energy,
technology, agriculture, trade, communications, and transportation, i24 news
reported.
Israel
and the
UAE signed a normalization agreement on August 13, 2020, making the UAE
the third Arab country, after Egypt in 1979 and Jordan in 1994, to sign a peace
agreement with Israel. The UAE was the first Gulf state to take this step,
followed by the Kingdom of Bahrain.
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