A member of the Emirati ruling family invited an Israeli singer to visit him in Abu Dhabi and give a special concert there, amid the acceleration of normalization steps between the two sides days after they announced the establishment of diplomatic relations.
On Sunday, the official Israeli Broadcasting Corporation said that Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa bin Muhammad Al Nahyan had invited Israeli singer "Omir Adam" to visit him.
It considered this a "unconventional product" of the normalization agreement between Israel and the UAE, which was announced 3 days ago.
The Israeli singer had already sent a letter months ago to the leaders of the Emirates, in which he thanked them for their assistance to the Jewish community (numbering about 1500) in their country, according to the same source.
For his part, "Ofer Menachem," the director of public relations for the Israeli singer, said, "Omir expressed his appreciation for Bin Khalifa's assistance and exceptional support to the temple and the Jewish community (in the Emirates), which had a very positive response," according to the same source.
On Thursday, US President Donald Trump announced that the UAE and Israel had reached an agreement to normalize relations.
During the past two days, the pace of normalization between Israel and the UAE accelerated. Dubai received Israeli journalists, and in front of the famous Burj Khalifa, two Israeli correspondents appeared on live broadcasts.
Earlier, Deputy Chief of Dubai Police, Dhahi Khalfan, appeared on Israeli Channel 12 to say that Dubai police were able to discover the assassination team of Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh from their entry into the country until their departure in 2011.
The announcement of the normalization agreement between Tel Aviv and Abu Dhabi comes as the culmination of a long series of cooperation, coordination, communication and exchange of visits between the two countries.
The agreement was met with widespread Palestinian condemnation from the leadership and prominent factions, such as "Hamas", "Fatah" and "Islamic Jihad", while the Palestinian leadership considered it, through a statement, "betrayal by the Emirates of Jerusalem, Al-Aqsa and the Palestinian cause."