‚Basic framework‘ in place for Israel-Saudi normalization, US says – National Security Council says two sides moving toward historic deal, but ‘complex’ arrangement will require ‘compromise’ by all sides | Timesofisrael

Israel and Saudi Arabia are moving toward the outline of a historic US-brokered deal to normalize relations, the White House said on Friday.
US President Joe Biden is hoping to transform the Middle East — and score an election-year diplomatic victory — by securing recognition of the Jewish state by Saudi Arabia, the guardian of Islam’s two holiest sites.
“All sides have hammered out, I think, a basic framework for what, you know, what we might be able to drive at,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters.