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Israel businesspeople use Israeli passports to enter Saudi

For some time, there has existed an Israeli-Saudi commercial relationship as Israeli businesspeople use Israeli passports to enter the kingdom, carrying out "big deals" while Saudi businesspeople and investment funds seek investment in Israel, Globes has revealed.

According to Arab48.com, Globes reported an informed Israeli source stating: "We have indirect relations with Saudi Arabi for more than 20 years. I do not remember that there had been economic development like what we are witnessing these days."

 

Such relations have historically been carried out behind closed doors and mostly through firms registered in European or other countries, where security and civilian deals were reached and signed between businesspeople from the two countries.

 

For several months, Saudi Arabia has allowed Israeli businesspeople to enter its soil using special entry permission as well as their Israeli passports. Globes has revealed that the ban on the entry of Israelis had been recently lifted, and Israelis have started obtaining entry visas to Saudi Arabia, pointing out that tens of Israeli businesspeople visited Riyadh and other cities.

 

Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Neom and met Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman in November 2020, in the presence of the then US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

 

Such exchanges of visits have resulted in deals worth millions of dollars.

 

"Away from direct diplomatic relations and direct money transfers, we have all that the countries need to have direct commercial relations, signing deals and exchanging goods and expertise," an Israeli businessperson told Globes.

 

The Israeli economic news outlet reported that there has been an increasing Saudi interest, not only in tech start-ups, but also in several other Israeli products.

 

CEO of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry for trade between Israel and Persian Gulf States, Nirit Ofir, commented, "what is notable is the fast progress between private sectors," noting that businesspeople are not restricted by diplomatic issues.

 

Globes also reported a senior Saudi source stating that the number of applications applied by Saudi businesspeople seeking entry visas to Israel has increased. He indicated that Israeli and Saudi businesspeople meet and hold deals in Abu Dhabi and Manama.

 

Regarding diplomatic matters, another Saudi source told Globes: "The fact that Bin Salman approved direct investment and not indirect investment, as there has been until now, says that another barrier has been breached and direct and publicly open relations are coming nearer."

 




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