Biden, Trump Officials To Attend DC Event Marking Anniversary Of Abraham Accords

U.S Senior officials from the Biden and Trump administrations will make a rare joint appearance at an event marking the one-year anniversary of the signing of the Abraham Accords next week in Washington, the confab’s organizers told The Times of Israel on Thursday.

The Tuesday event at the Four Seasons Hotel is being organized by the Abraham Accords Peace Institute, which was launched by Jared Kushner, former president Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law, and one of the main brokers of the normalization agreements Israel signed last year with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan.

Kushner will be in attendance and offer opening remarks, said AAPI executive director Robert Greenway, who was senior director for Middle Eastern affairs on Trump’s National Security Council when the Abraham Accords were signed.

After Kushner’s address, Greenway will moderate a panel featuring the ambassadors of some of the countries represented in the accords — Israeli Ambassador to the US Gilad Erdan, UAE Ambassador to the US Yousef al-Otaiba and Bahrain Ambassador to the US Sheikh Abdullah bin Rashid al-Khalifa. The panel will be followed by a private luncheon for those in attendance.

Also in attendance will be members of Congress, senior representatives from the US State Department along with representatives from Egypt and Jordan, which “laid the foundation for the Abraham Accords” by being the first Arab countries to sign peace deals with Israel in 1979 and 1994 respectively, Greenway said.