Foreign Minister and Alternate Prime Minister Yair Lapid met last month with Jordan's King Abdullah II at his palace in Amman, according to media reports on Saturday.
Channel 12 news reported the pair reportedly discussed recent tensions at the Temple Mount complex in Jerusalem, as well as clashes at the Temple Mount last spring that ignited Israel's military campaign against Hamas in Gaza.
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Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (L), Jordan's King Abdullah II
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Lapid and Abdullah also discussed strengthening of relations between the neighboring countries that established diplomatic ties in 1994 as part of a peace treaty signed at the White House.
Relations between the two countries have been warming since Israel's new government was sworn in.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett this summer reportedly held a secret meeting with the head of the Hashemite royal family, marking the first talks between an Israeli prime minister and the King of Jordan in more than five years.
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Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (R) and President Isaac Herzog
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President Isaac Herzog revealed earlier this month that he had also met secretly with Abdullah. At the meeting, held at the King's invitation, the two discussed strategic and geopolitical issues including the effects of climate change on the Middle East.
Lapid was also in Jordan in July for a meeting with Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi where they reached agreements on trade and water cooperation.
In a pre-recorded speech to the United Nations General Assembly last week, the Jordanian king called for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying that "the current situation is simply unsustainable."
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