A delegation of Israeli officials has travelled publicly to Saudi Arabia for the first time, in the latest sign of increasingly overt ties between the two countries.
The Israeli delegation, led by Amir Weissbrod, a deputy director-general in the Israeli ministry of foreign affairs, will be observers at a Unesco world heritage meeting. They are not on a bilateral visit.
But this is the latest sign of how ties between the two countries, which do not have diplomatic relations, have developed in recent months, as the administration of US president Joe Biden has spearheaded a push to normalise their relations as part of a deal that would reshape Middle Eastern geopolitics.
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