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The UAE and Bahrain became the first Arab countries to formally recognize Israel since Jordan in 1994.
This skips Mauritania, which established full diplomatic relations with Israel in 1999. UAE and Bahrain were therefore not the first Arab countries to do so since Jordan in 1994.
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Mauritania formally established full diplomatic relations with Israel on October 28, 1999, five years after Jordan’s 1994 treaty and long before the 2020 Abraham Accords.
At the 1999 Washington ceremony, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said Israel and Mauritania were announcing "the decision of their countries to establish full diplomatic relations." Contemporary reporting likewise described Mauritania as the third Arab state to establish such ties with Israel.
So while the UAE and Bahrain were major new normalization cases in 2020, they were not the first Arab countries to formally recognize Israel since Jordan; Mauritania had already done that in 1999 (even though it later severed relations).
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- Remarks at Ceremony on Signing of Diplomatic Relations between Israel and Mauritania
Secretary Albright hosted the ministers as they announced "the decision of their countries to establish full diplomatic relations." The ceremony is dated Washington, D.C., October 28, 1999.
- Israel, Mauritania to begin relations - UPI Archives
UPI reported on Oct. 26, 1999 that Israel and Mauritania had agreed to establish full diplomatic relations, "making Mauritania the third Arab state to establish such ties with Israel."
Then on March 27, 2021, an event was organized to commemorate International Holocaust Memorial Day
The date is wrong. International Holocaust Remembrance Day is on January 27, and contemporaneous coverage of the Abraham Accords-related event places it on Jan. 27, 2021, not March 27.
Full reasoning
This sentence gives the event the wrong month.
The United Nations' 2021 Holocaust remembrance page identifies the international observance date as 27 January 2021. A contemporaneous JNS report about the Abraham Accords-related event says it was held "in honor of International Holocaust Memorial Day on Jan. 27" and is itself dated Jan. 27, 2021.
So the article's reference to March 27, 2021 is incorrect; the commemoration was tied to the January 27 international observance.
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- 2021 Holocaust Remembrance | United Nations
The UN page lists the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust on Wednesday, 27 January 2021, including the United Nations Holocaust Memorial Ceremony that day.
- In a first, Arab-initiated event commemorates the Holocaust in wake of Abraham Accords - JNS
JNS reported on Jan. 27, 2021 that, "In the wake of the Abraham Accords and in honor of International Holocaust Memorial Day on Jan. 27, individuals from the group Sharaka held an event..."