Sudan, an Arab League member, had for decades maintained a rigid anti-Israel stance.
Israeli PM-designate Benjamin Netanyahu announces the nomination during a speech to the parliament.
Riyadh, which currently does not have diplomatic relations with Tel Aviv, did not comment on the Israeli prime minister-designate's remarks.
The Israeli president is scheduled to meet with King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa and members of the local Jewish community in Bahrain during his two-day visit.
Biden administration remains committed to the solution along the 1967 lines "with mutually agreed swaps," says a senior US official, stressing so-called Abraham Accords have no bearing on the conflict.
Deal with Palestine "based on two states for two peoples" is the right thing for Israel's security, Israeli PM Yair Lapid tells UN General Assembly, but asks resistance groups to lay down arms.
Pakistan is among the countries that has no diplomatic relations with Israel because of the lingering issue of Palestinian statehood, and says no government delegation has visited Israel.
Joe Biden will be seen as the last US president to sell fear to the Middle East. Peace is breaking out in the region, leaving him and the Israelis as lone voices on the Iran strike plan.
The agreement includes regulation, customs, services, government procurement and electronic trade and will come into effect when signed by the countries' economy ministers and ratified.
Israel hosted the foreign ministers of four Arab nations and the US as signals mount that a 2015 agreement on Iran's nuclear programme will soon be restored.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his counterparts from the UAE, Bahrain and Morocco will attend a series of diplomatic meetings in Israel starting on Sunday.
The less visible and most pernicious part of the relationship between Egypt, Israel, and the US revolves around the besieged Gaza Strip.
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