Prime Minister Yair Lapid met on Thursday with UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Jerusalem.
Lapid said that "this is the historic visit of a regional leader who will promote the regional architecture that we have been building over the past year in the middle east, a visit of a close and dear friend, with which I can to to about everything.
"My friend, we are changing the middle east together," he added. "We are moving it from war to peace. From terror to economic cooperation."