The Abraham Accords offer a better future for the Middle East and are “one of the best answers” to Iran, Israeli Ambassador to the US Mike Herzog said on Sunday.

Speaking at the opening of the first Zionist Rabbinic Coalition conference, held at the Bible Museum in Washington, Herzog said that the agreement’s potential is “huge.”

“We are now in the process of building a civilian architecture with our new partners and a security architecture with those partners,” he said. “We would like to deepen what we have and we are doing it every day. And I believe that more and more countries are looking at us and saying, ‘This is a success story and we want to join.’ And the fact of the matter is that countries that have had cold peace with Israel are warming up to us.”

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The ambassador gave Egypt as an example. “We’ve had cold peace for decades since we signed peace with Egypt. Things are changing very rapidly. We now have, for the first time in decades, an EgyptAir flight to Israel and direct flights between Israel and Egypt, open meetings between our leaders and President Sisi. And no more hiding, the Israeli flag is there. We do a lot of things together, which goes far beyond security, and that’s a very different world.”

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