A two-day summit that brought together foreign ministers from four Arab countries with their Israeli and US counterparts concluded in the Negev region of southern Israel on Monday. Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid praised the summit as “historic” and said the meet would become a regular event. “Last night we decided to make the Negev Summit into a permanent forum,” he declared alongside counterparts from UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, Egypt, and the US. The UAE, Bahrain, and Morocco all normalised ties with Israel in 2020 in controversial deals brokered by the former administration of President Don…