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Top Israeli lawmaker says normalization deal with Saudis not imminent

A senior Israeli lawmaker said on Sunday that any forging of relations with Saudi Arabia did not appear imminent, despite US President Joe Biden's prediction last week of a possible rapprochement between the Middle East powers.

"I think it's too early to talk about a deal being in the works," Yuli Edelstein, head of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee and a senior member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party, told Israel's Army Radio.


A senior Israeli lawmaker
said on Sunday that any forging of relations with Saudi Arabia
did not appear imminent, despite US President Joe Biden's
prediction last week of a possible rapprochement between the
Middle East powers.
"I think it's too early to talk about a deal being in the
works," Yuli Edelstein, head of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and
Defence...