Israeli jewelry company participates in Riyadh Season

Riyadh (QNN)- Israeli jewelry company Yvel participated in the Riyadh Season’s Jewelry Salon by showing a face mask decorated with gold and 3,608 black and white diamonds, which is said to be the world’s most expensive mask.

Israeli jewelry brand Yvel participated in the Riyadh Season’s Jewelry Salon which is billed as the Middle East’s largest jewelry exhibition.

The exhibition in Saudi Arabia aims to reinvent the landscape of KSA’s jewellery industry by uniting reputed international and local designers on a single platform.

Isaac Levy, president and designer at jewelry brand Yvel told Arab News, “I am proud to present the most expensive COVID mask in the world. It mask was commissioned by one of my very good customers from Los Angeles.”

The customer paid $1.5 million for the mask, which Yvel has loaned to the Jewelry Salon for Riyadh Season.

The mask consists of three sections. The front piece is the jeweled cover, which weighs 280 grams, and inside that is an N99 mask. The third layer is a disposable filter. It is, Levy stressed, ““100 percent a COVID mask approved by the (US Food and Drug Administration).”

Such a participation came amid long-reported initial stages of normalizing relations between Saudi Arabia and the occupation state of ‘Israel’, after the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco, under the so-called Abraham Accords, a pact brokered by the United States, normalized ties with ‘Israel’ last year.

Saudi Arabia had clarified its position regarding the normalization with ‘Israel.’

“Riyadh supports full normalization with Israel, but first a permanent and complete peace agreement should be approved that guarantees the Palestinians their state with dignity,” Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud once said.

In Aughest, during a news conference alongside German FM, he also declared, “Peace must be achieved with the Palestinians on the basis of international agreements as a condition for any normalisation of relations with Israel. Once that is achieved all things are possible.”

He also added, “Any efforts that promote peace in the region, that result in holding back the threat of annexation, could be viewed as positive.”

Prince Faisal bin Farhan also said during an interview with CNN in April that normalization had been on the table since the introduction of the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative on the condition of reaching resolution with the Palestinians.

“I think normalizing Israel’s status within the region would bring tremendous benefit to the region as a whole,” he said.

“It would be extremely helpful both economically but also socially and from a security perspective.”

But such a process, he said, “can only be successful if we address the issue of the Palestinians and if we are able to deliver a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders that gives the Palestinians dignity and gives them their rights.”

In February, Prince Faisal told Arab League foreign ministers that Saudi Arabia remained committed to the establishment of a Palestinian state, stood with the Palestinian people and supported all efforts to reach a solution.

In an exclusive interview with Arab News, Saudi Arabia’s minister of state for foreign affairs, Adel al-Jubeir said that the Saudi position has not changed and it still supports the Arab Peace Initiative, which offers normalization in exchange for the creation of a Palestinian state.

He said the recent normalization deals by the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan were “sovereign decisions,” but if they led to a change in Israeli policies towards Palestinians “then there may be some benefit in it”.

“But as far as the kingdom is concerned, our position remains that normalization can only come if there’s an agreement on peace,” said Jubeir.

“We want a two-state solution based on the Arab Peace Initiative and the relevant United Nations resolutions where we have a Palestinian state and living side by side in peace and security. That remains our position.”