JERUSALEM / DUBAI - Israel on Sunday announced it had opened its embassy in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

The UAE and Israel normalized bilateral ties with the signing of Abraham Accord in September last year in Washington.

Since then, several delegations from the UAE and Israel have met to sign bilateral agreements on trade and investment, tourism, direct flights, security, telecommunications, technology, energy, healthcare, culture, the environment, the establishment of reciprocal embassies, and other areas of mutual benefit.

The UAE and Israel normalized bilateral ties with the signing of Abraham Accord in September last year in Washington

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The embassy "will promote the entire relations between the countries and expand ties with the Emirati government, economic entities and the private sector, academia, the media and more," the Israeli Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

The embassy would operate in a temporary building until a permanent office will be found, the foreign ministry said.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi said in the statement that the move "would allow the broadening of the bilateral ties between Israel and the UAE."

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Meanwhile, the Council of Ministers of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has approved the establishment of the UAE embassy in the city of Tel Aviv in Israel, the UAE government's official Twitter said on Sunday.

The decision was made during the cabinet meeting on Sunday, chaired by UAE's Vice-President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.

Major UAE airlines, including Emirates and Etihad, are expected to start commercial flights to Tel Aviv in the first quarter of 2021. An earlier aviation agreement was signed that will allow up to 112 weekly flights between the two countries.