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Bahrain’s FM Abdullatif al-Zayani, Israel s PM Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Donald Trump, and UAE FM Abdullah bin Zayed participate in the signing of the Abraham Accords (Reuters) Washington - Heba El-Koudsy
Former US President Donald Trump s advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner is founding an organization called the Abraham Accords Institute for Peace, to work on deepening the normalization agreements he helped strike between Israel and Arab countries.
Kushner was the main architect of the Abraham Accord between several Arab countries and Israel.
According to a statement, the institute will focus on increasing trade and tourism between Israel, Bahrain, the UAE, Morocco and Sudan, and developing programs to foster people-to-people connections between the countries.
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President Joe Biden spoke with United Arab Emirates Crown Prince Mohamed bin Zayed yesterday. The White House said Biden “underlined the strategic importance of the normalization of relations between the United Arab Emirates and Israel,” noting his “full support for strengthening and expanding these arrangements.”
Jared Kushner is launching an organization called the “Abraham Accords Institute of Peace,” aimed at deepening ties between Israel and the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco, together with Avi Berkowitz, Haim Saban, UAE Ambassador Yousef Al Otaiba, Bahrani Ambassador Abdulla Al-Khalifa, and Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi. Rob Greenway, formerly a top Middle East advisor to President Donald Trump, will serve as executive director.
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(L-R) Assistant to the President and Special Representative for International Negotiations Avi Berkowitz, Special Assistant to the President Alexa Henning, Senior Advisor to President Donald Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner and White House Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley walk out of the White House, May 8, 2020. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
JTA Jared Kushner has launched an institute to promote his major accomplishment when he advised his father-in-law, former US President Donald Trump: the normalization agreements between Israel and a number of Sunni Arab countries.
Kushner founded the Abraham Accords Institute for Peace with Avi Berkowitz, a friend who Kushner brought in to be the chief Middle East peace negotiator in the latter part of his father-in-law’s single presidential term, Axios reported on Wednesday.
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