Jared Kushner

He goes and gives the Knesset.

They go for their meeting after.

And Sadat says, okay, well, are we going to do this thing?

And Bagan says, what are you talking about?

I'm not giving you an inch of our land.

And it was just one of these things where it was a miscommunication that brought about the symbolic visit of Anwar Sadat to Israel.

And that was one of these notions that just made everyone think that something was possible that they thought was impossible a moment before.

Actually, we had an example like that during our time in government when we

Did the Abraham Accords.

The first step of the Accords was really a phone call between President Trump, Prime Minister Netanyahu, and Mohammed bin Zayed, who at that point was the crown prince and de facto ruler of the UAE.

But all we had was a phone call and then a statement that was released.

And what was interesting after that is we said, okay, well, how do we integrate countries?

Nobody's done this in a long time.

And we were trying to figure out all the issues and there's big miscommunications between Israel and UAE and we were navigating through all the issues.

And so after a couple weeks, I said, you know what, I've got to go over there and try to sort through these issues.

So we make a plan to go to Israel, then we can go to UAE.

And then a young gentleman who worked with me named Avi Berkowitz says, well, if we're flying from Israel to UAE, instead of flying on a government plane, why don't we see if we can get an El Al plane and we'll do the first official commercial flight?

And so I said, that's a great idea.

Let's call, you know, Ambassador Otaiba, Yusuf, who was a tremendous player in the Abraham Accords working behind the scenes, you know, day and night, and was really a big catalyst.

So he calls Yusuf and he said, sure, no problem.