Israel’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid gives a press conference at the new Israeli consulate in the Gulf Emirate of Dubai on 30 June 2021. He opened the Jewish state’s first embassy in the Gulf during a trip to the UAE on 29 June 2021, nine months after they signed a normalisation deal. Photo: Karim Sahib / AFP.

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