Negev Summit

The meeting was organized by Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and its primary purpose was to establish an international alliance against the Nuclear program of Iran. According to Antony Blinken before arriving in Israel, it can be concluded that the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the provision of military aid from Israel to Ukraine were also discussed. Initially, the idea was to bring together as many countries as possible from the Abrahamic Accords, in order to strengthen and deepen ties. This is a few days after the Prime Minister of Israel, Naftali Bennett, also visited Egypt. The Jordanian foreign minister was also offered to join the conference, but he held a series of meetings in Kuwait at the time.

The foreign ministers of Israel, Egypt, Morocco, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, and the United States Secretary of State, met at Sde Boker in the Negev, Israel, and decided to hold regular meetings about regional security and commit to further expanding economic and diplomatic cooperation.[1]

The six foreign ministers who participated in the summit decided to set up a number of joint working groups. The first to discuss national security and the war on terror and other working groups will be education, health, energy, tourism, food and water.

In addition, the six foreign ministers agreed that each annual (or semi-annual) meeting would convene in a different desert city, to symbolize the issue common to all relevant countries: the need to improve water supply, desert tourism, book settlement localization and food security concerns.

Topics raised included wheat prices, the Western Sahara question, piracy in the Red Sea, and dealing with launching UAVs and long-range missiles, in addition raising opposition to the JCPOA nuclear deal with Iran and resisting its proxies.[2]

During the summit, an attack took place in Hadera in which two police officers were shot by a pair of Israeli Arabs who had sworn allegiance to ISIS. All summit's participants unanimously condemned the attack.[2]