A delegation of Pakistanis visited Israel on Monday. The delegation of mostly American Pakistanis with dual citizenship also included two Pakistani natives.

One of them is one of Pakistan’s last remaining Jews. The other is a ” very, very prominent journalist” according to Dan Feferman, director of Global Affairs for the Sharaka NGO.

Partially inspired by the Abraham Accords, Sharaka, which means ‘partnership’, was founded by young leaders from Israel and the Gulf in order to turn the vision of people-to-people peace into a reality. Pakistan, a Muslim country has no diplomatic relations with Israel. Pakistan is also a nuclear power.

Former MK Einat Wilf told Israel365 News that the group went to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum and went on a “whole tour of Israel.”

Wilf sees potential warming of ties between Pakistan and Israel stemming from this seemingly innocuous delegation. “It’s my experience that what ends up with normalization starts with these small things,” she said. Noting that publically It definitely would not be against the wishes of the Pakistani government, Wilf added “if someone speaks up against something, it definitely means they don’t think they are alone.”

Feferman called the historic visit a “conceptual breakthrough” noting that in the past, just mentioning the word ‘Israel’ was considered taboo in Pakistani circles.

In 2020, Israel365 News reported A religious and political leader named Maulana Muhammad Khan Sherani proclaimed at a conference on Saturday that he backs the normalization of Israel and Pakistan.