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Most are currently concentrated in cities such as Tel Aviv, which was ranked as the world’s most expensive city to live in last year by the Economist Intelligence Unit (a sister company to The Economist). Israel’s data-cable diplomacy comes as it is also trying to improve its own internet infrastructure to spread tech jobs to poorer parts of the country. And there are more undersea cables in the offing that would link Israel with the Gulf and Europe. It is to be powered by solar energy from Jordan, which will also get its water. Last year Israel and Jordan agreed to build an Emirati-financed desalination plant on Israel’s Mediterranean coast. Infrastructure projects may have more success. “The Emiratis are used to making major investments in established companies,” says one of the Israeli businessmen. Israeli tech entrepreneurs and venture capitalists went to Dubai to court investors, but were disappointed. All parties hoped this would improve business ties. “We wouldn’t be here if the Saudis weren’t fully aboard,” said a member of Mr Bennett’s delegation.īahrain was the second country after the United Arab Emirates ( UAE) to establish ties with Israel under the so-called “Abraham Accords” in 2020. On February 14th Naftali Bennett became the first Israeli prime minister to visit Bahrain.

Nevertheless, the Saudis have given their blessing to their neighbours on the Persian Gulf to improve their own relationships with Israel. But King Salman bin Abdulaziz has long held that normal relations cannot be established with Israel until Palestinians achieve statehood. Muhammad bin Salman, the crown prince, has been quietly pushing the kingdom towards closer ties with Israel. The Saudis, who want to use the cable to plug in Neom, a planned high-technology city, are keeping mum. In reality, it will be a single pipeline, built with the support of both governments. Israel and Saudi Arabia do not have diplomatic relations and officially this route consists of two separate cables, one ending in the Jordanian port of Aqaba, the other starting in the nearby Israeli city of Eilat. “For the first time since Israel’s establishment, we’re becoming part of a regional infrastructure.” “For over seven decades all the Middle East’s trade routes and communications networks bypassed Israel,” says an Israeli official. It also represents a diplomatic thaw in the region.

For Israel, though, the new cable, named Blue-Raman, is far more than the sum of its 16 pairs of fibre-optic strands.
