Intelligence Minister Eli Cohen says he expects a diplomatic breakthrough with an African state in the coming months.
“There will be, this year, an additional [agreement] with an African country, in my estimation Sudan, that will also sign a peace agreement with the State of Israel,” Cohen says in an interview with Channel 13.
Cohen says he expects new agreements with other Gulf States in the future, including possibly Bahrain and Oman.
Sudan, an African Arab country, had long been hostile to Israel, but the two states have seen quietly warming ties in recent years.
An Israeli commercial jetliner received permission to fly over the country in June, and PM Netanyahu met with the head of the country’s transitional government earlier this year in Uganda.
Israel and Sudan are “discussing rapid normalization,” Netanyahu said in February.
Following Israel’s historic peace deal on Thursday with the United Arab Emirates, speculation over more agreements has been rampant, with Bahrain, Oman and Morocco also touted as possibilities.
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