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Israel–United Arab Emirates relations

Bilateral relations

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionAug 8, 2026
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Diplomatic relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates trace their origins to the early days of the Oslo Accords, where Israeli and Emirati diplomats had contact with each other in the 1990s in Washington, D.C. The first diplomatic facility between the two countries opened in 2015, when Israel opened an official diplomatic mission in Abu Dhabi to the International Renewable Energy Agency.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Israel, United and Arab providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Israel–United Arab Emirates relations” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.