"What we are doing here today isn't the end of the road, it's the beginning. From here, from this place, we are setting out on the road," Lapid said at a ceremony inaugurating Israel's Embassy in Abu Dhabi.

"Israel wants peace with its neighbors. With all its neighbors," the foreign minister said. "We aren't going anywhere. The Middle East is our home. We're here to stay. We call on all the countries of the region to recognize that."

The UAE, along with Bahrain, signed the Abraham Accords, a normalization agreement with Israel, in September 2020. It was the first agreement signed between Israel and an Arab state in 26 years, the last one in 1994 with Jordan. Later Morocco and Sudan also joined the US-brokered deals.

Lapid thanked the UAE's leaders for their "vision and inspiration" as well as Israel's former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, "the architect of the Abraham Accords," former US President Donald Trump and current US President Joe Biden.

Speaking after Lapid, UAE Culture and Knowledge Development Minister Noura Al Kaabi said that "it is essential that we prepare ourselves and our children toward a new world."

Together with al-Kaabi, Lapid affixed a mezuzah at the embassy, a Jewish tradition in which a parchment containing verses from the Bible is affixed to a doorpost. Present at the ceremony was Rabbi of the UAE Jewish community Levi Duchman, Israeli Foreign Ministry Director-General Alon Ushpiz and Israeli Foreign Ministry Commissioner Eitan Na'eh.

Lapid was greeted in Abu Dhabi, UAE's capital, by Ahmed Al Sayegh, UAE's Minister of State and Chairman of Abu Dhabi Global Market, the international financial center in the capital.

During his visit, Lapid will also attend the inauguration of Israel's consulate in Dubai. He will also visit Israel's pavilion at the Dubai Expo 2020 trade fair. Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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