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December 27, 2020, 09:35 AMlatest revision December 27, 2020, 10:21 AM
Cyril Amar / i24NEWSWearing masks amid the coronavirus pandemic, Israeli, Moroccan and US officials discuss normalization agreement at royal palace in Rabat, Morocco, December 22, 2020.
Delegation will work on establishing direct flights, embassies
An official delegation of Moroccan officials will arrive in Israel on Monday to further the recently established ties between the two countries, a Moroccan diplomatic source told i24NEWS on Sunday.
The delegation, arriving on the heels of a US-brokered bilateral normalization agreement signed last week, will work with Israeli counterparts on issues including launching direct flights between the two countries and establishing embassies.
A historic joint American-Israeli delegation landed in Morocco’s capital of Rabat last Tuesday to formalize the normalization agreement in a ceremony attended by the king, Israel’s National Security Advisor Meir Ben-Shabbat, and US Senior Advisor Jared Kushner.
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The North African country is the fourth nation to normalize ties with the Jewish state this year, following the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan.
On Friday, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he held “a very warm, exciting conversation” with Morocco’s King Mohammed VI, and invited the monarch to make an official visit to the Jewish state in the coming months.