Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said he may plan a visit to Saudi Arabia in the future and that at least one more Arab country would establish diplomatic relations with Israel later in 2023.

"This (visit to Saudi Arabia) is on the table, there is no date yet," he said, speaking to Israel's Army Radio during a state visit to Azerbaijan on Wednesday.

In 2020, Israel reached accords to normalize ties with Saudi Arabia's Gulf neighbors, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain and later included Morocco in the so-called Abraham Accords.

It has made no secret of its desire for closer ties with Saudi Arabia, which has held back on formally recognizing Israel in the absence of a resolution to Palestinian statehood goals. Earlier this week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said normalization with Riyadh would be a "giant step" toward ending the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Cohen said that this year at least one more country would join the Abraham Accords, without elaborating.

He added that the issue of normalizing relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia came up during U.S. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham's meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman this week.

"The enemy of Saudi Arabia is certainly not Israel. Its enemy is Iran," Cohen said on Wednesday.

Saudi Arabia and Iran ended years of hostility following a China-brokered agreement in March. When asked about the restoration of ties between Riyadh and Tehran, Cohen said that such a development could bode well for Israel.

"It is precisely this thing that can lead to a balancing act of (Saudi Arabia) moving closer to Israel," he said.

Earlier on Wednesday, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Jeddah where the two discussed the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, the Palestinian WAFA news agency reported.