Report: PM set to meet Mauritanian leader, as US seeks to widen Abraham Accords

9 July 2025, 5:19 pm

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Mauritania President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani speaks during the 38th African Union Summit, where leaders will elect a new head of the AU Commission, at the AU Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on February 15, 2025. (Amanuel Sileshi / AFP)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will reportedly meet today with Mauritania President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani in a meeting brokered by the Trump administration, which is seeking to expand the Abraham Accords normalization agreements between Israel and its Arab and Muslim neighbors.

The meeting will take place on the sidelines of a US-Africa summit being held in Washington, the Semafor news site reports, citing an unnamed person familiar with the plans.

The Times of Israel revealed at the very end of US President Donald Trump’s first term that his administration had been on the verge of brokering normalization agreements between Israel and Mauritania and Israel and Indonesia, but ran out of time before Trump left office.

Mauritania became the third member of the Arab League to establish full diplomatic relations with Israel in 1999, but severed ties 10 years later against the backdrop of the 2008-2009 Gaza war.

In an interview earlier today, Netanyahu expressed optimism about the chances for expanding the Abraham Accords following the US and Israeli decision to strike Iran.

“First comes strength, then peace. We have shown a lot of strength, and it seems to us that there are many fruits of peace, and we will be able to expand the Abraham Accords, creating a reality in the Middle East that is unimaginable, bringing prosperity and stability,” he said.