Reuters reported that an Emirati delegation will visit Israel - it seems - on the 22nd of this month, in response to the visit by an Israeli delegation to Abu Dhabi last week, to continue discussions on drafting the terms of the normalization agreement between the two parties.
An informed source indicated that the Tel Aviv visit would set the date for the signing ceremony for the normalization agreement at the White House later this month.
Reuters reported that Israeli officials refused to comment on this news, while Emirati officials did not respond to phone calls for comment.
This will be the first announced visit to Israel by an official Emirati delegation.
The Israeli Channel 12 announced earlier that the UAE and Israel will sign a peace treaty between them on the 22nd of this month at the White House in the United States of America, but the announcement of the arrival of the Emirati delegation to Israel may mean that the agreement will not actually be signed on that date.
On August 13, Israel and the UAE announced that they would normalize diplomatic relations under an agreement brokered by the United States and praised by Washington and Israel as a breakthrough, while the Palestinians rejected it.
On Monday, an Israeli minister said that the volume of trade exchange between Israel and the UAE is expected to reach $ 4 billion.
"Within 3 to 5 years, the volume of trade between Israel and the UAE will reach 4 billion dollars," Israeli Intelligence Minister Eli Cohen told the Israeli "Reshet Bet" radio.
For its part, the Israeli airline, "Israir", said on Sunday that it had booked places for commercial flights from Tel Aviv to the UAE in preparation for possible tourist trips.
The heads of the two largest banks in Israel will travel to the UAE this month, the first such visit since the two countries agreed to normalize relations.
The Palestinian leadership rejects any normalization of relations between Israel and the Arab countries before ending the Israeli occupation of the occupied territories in 1967.
It also demands that any process of normalizing relations be based on the principle of land for peace stipulated in the 2002 Arab initiative, and not on the peace for peace principle that Israel is currently advocating.