Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – The Israeli broadcaster and reporter for the Israeli “Channel 13” announced that he had made a secret visit to Saudi Arabia.
Alon Ben-David re-published a video clip of him during his visit to Saudi Arabia, which was broadcast by the Israeli channel in one of its news bulletins.
Surprising Saudi Arabia: Relaxed, welcoming even when identifying as an Israeli, much poorer than the neighbors in the Gulf and of course very, very religious https://t.co/uocX7fY1eG
The Israeli channel described its reporter’s visit to Saudi Arabia as “rare” and pointed out that the Kingdom is the most important Arab country.
And the Israeli journalist appeared in the clip as he performed ablution and entered one of the mosques in the Kingdom and conducted a tour of the markets and entered one of the sellers who did not appear to be of Saudi nationality and said to him: “I am from Israel.” The seller replied by saying: “Hello.”
“From Israel? Welcome”: The military commentator for News 13 Alon Ben David has a rare and secret visit to Saudi Arabia. Watch an excerpt from the full article that will be broadcast tonight in the main edition – https://t.co/Oeu4REMwjl @alonbd https://t.co/KaUcl9VZDj
It is noteworthy that the rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Israel is likely to be one of the files that US President Joe Biden will raise during his visit to the Kingdom in the middle of this month.