President Isaac Herzog in UAE.

 President Isaac Herzog’s visit comes some 16 months after the UAE normalised diplomatic relations with Israel.

Sunday’s high-profile diplomatic trip comes more than a month after Naftali Bennett became the first Israeli prime minister to visit the UAE, which normalised ties with Israel in September 2020.

Dubai’s Police Deputy, "Israel Doesn't Threaten Gulf States"

 Lieutenant-General Dhahi Khalfan Tamim, Dubai’s deputy chief of police and general security, was interviewed on Diwan Al-Mullah Online TV (Kuwait) on September 1, 2020. In the interview Tamim said that unlike Turkey and Iran, Israel has never threatened the Gulf states. He added that the agreement between the UAE and Israel serves the security and stability of the Gulf region in particular.

Israel's Virtual Embassy in Gulf States

PERSPECTIVES | Israel has been developing ties with Gulf states more openly as of late after years of doing so in secrecy. Now, Israel is reopening its 'virtual embassy' in the Arab Gulf states to foster ties between the countries' populations.