The top U.S. delegation reached Israel on Monday ahead of a tour with Morocco on Tuesday.
Arrivals include Jared Kushner, White House adviser on the Middle East and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Avi Berkowitz, American ambassador to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and Adam Boehler, senior officer of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation
Jared Kushner and Benjamin Netanyahu met in Jerusalem in 2018
(Photo: US Ambassador)
Kushner was expected to hold an official meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem.
On Tuesday, Kushner and Berkowitz will accompany Israeli officials on a trip to Morocco, boarding the first direct flight between Tel-Aviv and the Moroccan capital of Rabat.
Meir Ben-Shabbat, Leader of the National Security Council, is expected to lead the Israeli delegation.
The coalition, which aims to unveil the details of the normalization treaty, comes just weeks after Morocco and Israel reached an agreement with the US to normalize their ties.
Israelis celebrate the new agreement with Morocco
(Photo: Herzl Yosef)
As part of the agreement, the U.S. agreed to recognize the sovereignty of Morocco over a disputed region in Western Sahara.
The Israel-Morocco deal was the fourth to help the United States with a broker, following similar agreements between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan.
Kushner and his team are still holding talks with other countries from the Arab and Muslim worlds and say they hope to seal at least one more agreement before Trump leaves office on Jan. 20 and President Joe Biden enters the White House.