Jared Kushner

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.

Let's give it a shot.

So...

So we go and we do it.

And he says, if we can work out these issues, what we'll do.

So we go to Israel.

We do our meetings.

We get everything back into a good place.

We set up this trip over.