The Abraham Accords - Current Status and Future Prospects (webinar)

Описание: This is a recording of a UKLFI Charitable Trust webinar with Fleur Hassan-Nahoum and Natasha Hausdorff held on 10 February 2026.

Hamas documents indicate that a major objective of its attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 was to derail negotiations for Saudi Arabia to join the Abraham Accords between Israel and moderate Muslim states. Hamas leaders feared that these negotiations were about to reach a successful conclusion, that other Muslim states would follow the Saudis, and that the Palestinian cause would then be sidelined.

The ensuing war appears to have halted progress in the negotiations with Saudi Arabia, but agreements with the UAE, Bahrain and Morocco have remained in force, while Kazakhstan and Somaliland have recently agreed to join the Accords.

In this webinar Fleur Hassan-Nahoum and Natasha Hausdorff discuss the current state and future prospects of the Abraham Accords.

Fleur Hassan-Nahoum currently serves as Israel’s Special Envoy for Trade and Innovation. She is a Senior Fellow of the Misgav Institute for National Security and hosts “The Quad” current affairs programme on JNS TV.

She co-founded the UAE-Israel Business Council in 2020 and organised the inaugural meeting of the Gulf-Israel Women’s Forum. She was a Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem between 2018 and 2024.

Fleur grew up in Gibraltar, read law at Kings College London and qualified as a barrister in England and Wales. She also holds an MA from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, in Conflict Research Management and Resolution.

Natasha Hausdorff is a barrister at 6 Pump Court Chambers and a frequent speaker on International Law. She has a law degree from Oxford University, qualified as a solicitor at Skadden, and subsequently gained an LLM from Tel Aviv University, focussing on public international law and the law of armed conflict. She clerked for Miriam Naor, President of Israel's Supreme Court, and was a fellow at Columbia Law School's National Security programme. Natasha is legal director of UKLFI Charitable Trust.

Natasha’s work explaining legal issues relating to Israel has been recognised by the American Jewish Committee’s award for moral courage and by the honour of lighting one of the torches on Har Herzl to mark Israel’s Independence Day.