Will normalizations continue if Trump loses election?

US Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin had a message for the reporters on the first El Al flight from Israel to Bahrain this week: More of US President Donald Trump means more normalization between Israel and Arab and Muslim countries.

“We are very hopeful there will be other announcements,” he said. “Our expectation is, obviously, that President Trump wins and this continues… There is a lot more in the works.”

Would a Trump loss mean the end of the wave of normalization with Israel?

and actively sought the intervention of these Zionist groups.

Speaking to The Jerusalem Post, Duvdevani, placed the blame for the crisis on the progressive Jewish denominations however, saying that he had made an equitable offer to them which granted them greater representation in the national institutions than the current agreement, but that the Reform and Masorti leaders had never responded to the offer.

Director of the Reform Movement in Israel Rabbi Gilad Kariv said in response that Duvdevani’s offer said however, that it had not been equitable and was not a fair reflection of the size of the left- wing, progressive block.

The Zionist organizations have never before intervened in this manner, and traditionally refrain from voting in the WZC elections and on the coalition agreement.

The deal drawn up by the Likud, Mizrachi Olami, Eretz Hakodesh, and Yisrael Beytenu grants the most influential positions and control over large budgets to their factions and largely excludes the centrist, left- wing and non- Orthodox factions from positions of influence.

Outraged, these groups argued that the World Zionist Congress has – since its inception – worked in an inclusive manner with so- called “wall- to- wall” coalitions across the political and religious spectrum, and requested the intervention of the Zionist organizations to stop what they saw as a