White House's Kushner to visit Israel, Morocco following normalization agreement
Senior Trump administration adviser Jared Kushner will lead a US and Israeli delegation to Morocco next week.
White House adviser Jared Kushner will travel to Israel and Morocco next week. His visit comes on the heels of the two countries' agreeing to establish relations.
Kushner, who is also US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, will arrive in Israel on Monday and meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The next day he will fly via Israel’s El Al from Tel Aviv to Rabat with a US and Israeli delegation, Reuters reported.
Trump announced last week that Israel and Morocco would formally establish full relations. The United States also recognized Morocco’s sovereignty claims in disputed Western Sahara at the time.
Morocco followed the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan in agreeing to recognize the Jewish state. The Trump administration brokered the agreements. The administration has continued to seek normalization deals between Israel and states in the Middle East and North Africa following Trump’s loss to Joe Biden in the US presidential election.
