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Tel Aviv (AP) - Half a year after the establishment of diplomatic relations, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is traveling to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) tomorrow, according to media reports.
There he will meet Crown Prince Mohammed bin Sajid al-Nahjan, according to the Israeli media on Wednesday.
The visit had therefore been planned for a long time, but was postponed several times.
The Prime Minister's office did not comment on the media reports when asked.
It is the first trip by an Israeli head of government to the Gulf state.
Observers rated the rapprochement between the two countries as a historical and clear foreign policy success for Netanyahu.
Elections will take place in Israel in just under two weeks.
The 71-year-old wants to become prime minister again.
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Israel signed diplomatic relations agreements with Bahrain and the Emirates in Washington in September.
Previously, only two Arab states, Egypt and Jordan, had diplomatic relations with Israel.
The two Gulf states abandoned the decades-long line of Arab states to refuse relations with Israel until the conflict with the Palestinians is resolved.
In return, Israel announced that it would suspend the annexation of areas in the occupied West Bank that the Palestinians claim for their own state.
Israel and the Emirates expect economic advantages from their rapprochement, but above all forge an alliance against their common arch enemy Iran.
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