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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu canceled his planned trip next week to the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, citing the halting of all passenger flights in and out of Israel due to the coronavirus.
The prime minister was scheduled to meet the with the crown prince of Abu Dhabi.
The purpose of the trip was to both celebrate Israeli’s normalization with the two Arab nations, as well as enlist regional leaders in a campaign against the United State’s possible return to the 2015 nuclear deal between world powers and Iran. Netanyahu had originally been slated to travel to the Gulf in November, but the pandemic and internal political issues led the premier to postpone on multiple occasions.