Kazakhstan is joining the Abraham Accords, making it the first nation in five years to do so. The move, according to pro-Israel advocates and politicians, signals an opportunity.  

With more land than any other Muslim country in the world, Kazakhstan has huge potential for increased cooperation with Israel in agricultural development, sustainability, and much more,” David Aaronson, a visiting fellow at the Allison Center for National Security at The Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Signal  

Aaronson, who is also the former senior adviser to Israel’s Minister of Regional Cooperation, predicts that Kazakhstan “has restarted the domino effect” of countries joining the Abraham Accords.  

The Abraham Accords were established under President Donald Trump’s first term. Jews, Christians, and Muslims all view Abraham as a significant figure in the history of their respective faiths, making Abraham an apt name for an agreement intended to normalize relations between Israel and Muslim nations.  

No additional counties joined the agreement during the Biden administration, but since returning to office, Trump has repeatedly expressed a desire to see more nations join the agreement and normalize relations with Israel.  

The announcement that Kazakhstan will join the Abraham Accords comes a little more than four months after the U.S. bombed three major nuclear sites in Iran, weakening the threat Iran poses to the region, and about a month after Israel and Hamas reached a ceasefire agreement after two years of war.  

Kazakhstan will join four counties that signed onto the according in 2020: Morocco, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and Sudan, although the agreement with Sudan has been affected by the Sudanese civil war.  

“Under the leadership of President Trump and Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu, we are likely to see more countries joining the circle of peace in the very near future,” Aaronson says.  

Foreign policy experts, such as Ilan Berman, senior vice president of the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington, D.C., and Asher Fredman, the former director for Israel at the Abraham Accords Peace Institute and a visiting fellow at The Heritage Foundation, have previous speculated Azerbaijan, Indonesia, and Saudi Arabia may consider joining the Abraham Accords.  

Even though Israel and Kazakhstan have had diplomatic relations since the earl 1990s, leaders of the Abraham Accords Caucus in the Israeli Knesset are still celebrating the news as an important step toward the expansion of the accords.  

“Israel and Kazakhstan have relations and cooperation in the areas of security, economy, energy, agriculture, technology, and more,” Knesset Members Dan Illouz and MK Michael Biton, co-chairs of the Abraham Accords Caucus, said in a joint statement.  

“With Kazakhstan’s accession to the Abraham Accords, we will work to strengthen these ties even further,” Illouz and Biton said. “We call on all like-minded countries in the region and beyond to join the Abraham Accords and to benefit from the fruits of peace. Together, we will lead to prosperity and a better future for all the descendants of Abraham.”  

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