LONDON: Israel shared a post congratulating Saudi Arabia on the occasion of its National Day on Saturday.
“We send our sincere congratulations to the king, government and people of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on the occasion of the 93rd national day,” the Israeli foreign ministry said in a statement posted to its account on X, formerly Twitter.
“May Allah bring you goodness and blessings, security and prosperity with our wishes for an atmosphere of peace, cooperation and good neighbourliness,” it added in the statement on its English and Arabic-language accounts.
According to reports, it was the first time a National Day message had been shared on the English-language account of the Israeli foreign ministry, but not the first time in Arabic.
Earlier this week, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said “every day we get closer” to a normalization deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel.
And in an address to the UN General Assembly on Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Middle East was “on the cusp of an historic peace.”
