Moroccan officials arrive in Israel to reopen liaison office al-monitor.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from al-monitor.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Judah Ari Gross is The Times of Israel s military correspondent.
The national flags of Morocco, Israel and the United States on an El Al plane to Morocco flying a delegation to finalize a normalization deal between Jerusalem and Rabat, at Ben Gurion airport, near Tel Aviv, December 22, 2020. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)
RABAT, Morocco Israel’s renewed ties with the Kingdom of Morocco are substantively different from its normalization agreements with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, and that distinction being not so much a groundbreaking shift, but a shift back was on clear display Tuesday, borne out by the decidedly subdued ceremony during a visit of a joint Israeli-American delegation to the Moroccan capital.
With Morocco-Israel deal, US looks to maintain role in peace accords al-monitor.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from al-monitor.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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The Walla news site reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking to appoint Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz as the next US ambassador in place of Gilad Erdan, who is supposed to take up the role in addition to the UN envoy position he already holds.
Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
According to the outlet, Netanyahu is meeting with Erdan, and giving him the choice of choosing which position he wants to keep and which he wants Steinitz to have.
Steinitz has been closely involved in US and UN-brokered negotiations with Lebanon over a maritime border dispute.
Trump deal with Morocco is yet another headache for Biden team – Ya Libnan yalibnan.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yalibnan.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.