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They're meeting and they're going to have lunch together. it's quite a change just from just a few months ago when no israeli could enter the country. i think that is an important part of the symbolism. that is what a lot of this trip is about. officials have been going back and forth since they signed the normalization agreements over the past 15 months. foreign ministers have been back and forth so this trip is mostly about the relationship so everybody could see publicly prime minister bennett meeting with the crown prince, shaking hands, seeing the warmth between them. beyond the symbolism...

Shadow on contestants caught in political crosshairs. hadas gold has the story. >> reporter: sparkles, citstiles and swimsuits. 80 misuniverse contestants have taken over the southern resort city of ilat for the preliminary stages of the 70 u.s. annual pageant. but these spotlights pushing the competition into another. the decision to host miss universe in israel pulling some of the contestants into the political spotlight. south africa's government withdrawing support over what they say is israel's treatment of palestinians. calling on their attendant, la leyla miswani to pull out, but miss s...

Including the first arab party ever to join a government. >> translator: we are not enemies. we are one people. >> reporter: until the final moment, netanyahu was working to scuttle the government and hang on to power. in language echoing former u.s. president donald trump, israel's longest serving leader accused his rivals of the greatest fraud in the country's history. trump gave netanyahu major political gifts, recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel, moving the american embassy to jerusalem, normalization agreements with some arab countries and more. it was never enough to get ne...

Jerusalem. how significant is this moment? >> it's an incredibly significant moment. for most of the two and a half years or so prime minister netanyahu has been an interim caretaker prime minister. he didn't win an election and hadn't lost an election and allowed him to be in power in a very significant time in israeli history. normalization agreements and what president trump did with the relationship with israel. netanyahu was in charge for most of that essentially hanging on because nobody could replace him and pull what the magician had done until now. the opposition had the number of sea...