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In Abu Dhabi, Energy Minister Katz set to discuss UAE-brokered project with Jordan

By Lazar Berman 14 August 2023, 2:29 pm Edit

Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter

Energy Minister Israel Katz is in Abu Dhabi to meet UAE Minister of Technology and Industry Sultan Al-Jaber and Jordan’s ministers of environment, water and energy.

They will be discussing a UAE-brokered water-for-electricity project between Israel and Jordan, in which Israel provides desalinated water in exchange for energy produced by Jordanian solar energy fields. The solar facility will be built by an Emirati firm.

According to an updated memorandum of understanding the three countries signed last November, there has to be tangible progress by the COP28 conference held in Dubai this coming November.

Katz, who is slated to become foreign minister within the year, is the first Israeli minister to visit the UAE since the Netanyahu government came to power in December.

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