Israel and the Central Asian country of Tajikistan have signed their first bilateral agreement in the field of tourism, during a landmark visit by an Israeli minister to the Muslim nation.

The milestone in the relations between the countries, which established ties on March 26, 1992, after the fall of the Soviet Union, highlights the potential for cooperation between the Jewish state and Muslim former Soviet republics in the wake of the 2020 Abraham Accords.

Israeli Tourism Minister Haim Katz and Jumakhonzoda Jamshed Jurakhon, chairman of the Committee for Tourism Development of the Republic of Tajikistan, inked the memorandum of understanding on Thursday at the UN Tourism Investment Forum in Dushanbe, in the first official visit by an Israeli minister to the country.

“Tourism is a brid

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