# Israel, the UAE and Bahrain sign the Abraham Accords in Washington

Date: 2020

## The fact

On 15 September 2020 Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain signed the Abraham Accords at the [White House](/organizations/white-house), with [Netanyahu](/people/benjamin-netanyahu) as Israeli prime minister. It is not a Palestinian final-status agreement.

## Context

Trump hosted. [Mohammed bin Zayed](/people/mohamed-bin-zayed-al-nahyan)’s state signed. Neighbouring Morocco December 2020 is a later child. He did not write a US proclamation.

Morocco 10 December 2020 is neighbouring. [Abbas](/people/mahmoud-abbas)’s condemnation is a neighbouring Palestinian instrument.

The Prime Minister of Israel chairs the cabinet, is the political principal of the IDF, and can table Knesset bills. He does not write a Hamas military order, an ICC judgment, a US presidential proclamation, or a UN Security Council resolution.

## Evidence and sources

U.S. Department of State carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is energy security and [social cohesion](/drivers/social-cohesion): a completed Israel–Gulf diplomatic opening is a dated regional-stabilisation instrument, occupation unresolved.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 15 September 2020 White House signing by Israel, UAE, and Bahrain, independently reported.

Not established: that occupation ended, or a unique later Gaza calorie coefficient from the lawn.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

UAE and Bahrain signed. [Trump](/people/mig-donald-trump) hosted.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Israel, the UAE and Bahrain sign the Abraham Accords in Washington, not a later speech about Israel, the UAE and Bahrain sign the Abraham Accords in Washington.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Israel, the UAE and Bahrain sign the Abraham Accords in Washington on 2020-09-15 is not a licence to treat every later U.S. Department of State communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Israel, the UAE and Bahrain sign the Abraham Accords in Washington into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He signed for Israel. UAE and Bahrain signed. Trump hosted. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Benjamin Netanyahu: https://factrail.ai/people/benjamin-netanyahu
- Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan: https://factrail.ai/people/mohamed-bin-zayed-al-nahyan
- Donald Trump: https://factrail.ai/people/donald-trump

## Drivers

- Energy Security: https://factrail.ai/drivers/energy-security
- Industrial-Policy Activism: https://factrail.ai/drivers/industrial-policy-activism

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-israel-emirates-idUSKBN2661PT
- https://www.state.gov/the-abraham-accords/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/il-abraham-2020