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After years of disconnect between ministers: Horowitz and Zandberg met with their Palestinian counterparts
The Minister of Health and the Minister of Environmental Protection met with their Palestinian counterparts in Jerusalem, with the knowledge of Prime Minister Bennett.
Senior Israeli: "There is legitimacy in talking to the Palestinians and Abu Mazen"
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Wednesday, 28 July 2021, 17:25
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Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz and Minister of Environmental Protection Tamar Zandberg met today (Wednesday) in Jerusalem with their Palestinian counterparts, after years of almost complete disconnect between ministers on both sides.
The person who initiated the meetings is the Minister for Regional Cooperation, Issawi Farage, who is trying to encourage government ministers to renew ties with their Palestinian counterparts on economic and civil issues.
Prime Minister's office confirmed the meeting took place with the knowledge of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in concert with him.
The meetings between the ministers were held against the background of a slow change has occurred in recent weeks in an atmosphere between Israel and the Palestinian Authority since the new government. In the last 12 years, which Benjamin Netanyahu was prime minister, relations Between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, things have deteriorated, and for the past 18 months almost all contact has been made through security coordination channels and through President Rivlin.
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Meet with their counterparts in Jerusalem, encouraged by the Minister of Regional Cooperation.
Horowitz, Zandberg and Fridge, 2019 (Photo: TPS, Photo: Kobi Richter / TPS)
In the past month, there have been four telephone conversations between Palestinian Authority Chairman Abu Mazen and senior Israeli officials. Two conversations took place with President Yitzhak Herzog and two more conversations with Defense Minister Bnei Gantz and Internal Security Minister Omar Bar-Lev. The Palestinian president was in July 2017, while Netanyahu spoke with Abu Mazen by telephone about the crisis on the Temple Mount.
Since the formation of the new government in Israel, several Israeli moves have been made to improve relations with the Palestinians.
Earlier in the day,
Palestinian Authority
Coordinator Major General Rassan Aliyan announced that Israel had decided to accede to the Palestinians' request and grant 15,000 new work permits in Israel to Palestinian workers from the West Bank. balance.
Bennett has not yet spoken to him and at this point also has no such intention. Abu Mazen (Photo: AP)
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has not yet spoken to Abu Mazen and has no intention of doing so at this stage.
However, Bennett made it clear to both the US administration and some government ministers that he supports promoting economic and civilian cooperation between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
Bennett himself was informed in advance about Horowitz and Zandberg's meetings with their counterparts.
"The political echelon is signaling that it is interested in advancing measures to strengthen the Palestinian Authority, and after many years there is legitimacy in talking to the Palestinians and Abu Mazen. This is a kind of renaissance," said a senior Israeli official dealing with the Palestinian issue.
However, in the face of the slow change in the atmosphere, there is a great challenge that will come to the forefront of both sides in the coming days.
Next week, Israel is expected to freeze NIS 100 million in the tax money it collects for the Palestinian Authority.
Senior PA officials have sent messages to Israel that such a freeze could severely harm them.
The fear in Israel is that the freeze on funds will reverse the progress made with the Palestinians in the past month.
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