Kushner nominated

Washington: Former White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and his deputy,

Avi Berkowitz, have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in negotiating four normalisation deals between Israel and Arab nations known as the ‘‘Abraham Accords.’’

They were nominted by American attorney Alan Dershowitz, who was eligible to do so in his capacity as a professor emeritus of Harvard Law School.

Kushner, who is former US president Donald Trump’s soninlaw, and Berkowitz, who was Trump’s Middle East envoy, were key figures in negotiating deals between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco.

The deals were the most significant diplomatic breakthroughs in the Middle East in 25 years as the region girds for a prolonged confrontation with Iran. — Reuters