Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday a reconciliation agreement that would end six years of freeze in bilateral ties with Turkey is very close

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday a reconciliation agreement that would end six years of freeze in bilateral ties with Turkey is very close.

While meeting with visiting American congressmen, Netanyahu said the ties would not regain the level they used to have a decade ago, but normalization will help both sides “in advancing a long list of shared regional interests,” Israeli daily Ha’aretz reported.

In September 2010, Turkey suspended its military ties with Israel and expelled the Israeli envoy from Ankara over Tel Aviv’s refusal to apologize over its killing of nine Turkish nationals aboard an aid vessel.

Turkey and the Zionist entity see eye to eye on the conflict in Syria and the need to topple legitimate President Bashar al-Assad.

Also on Monday, Numan Kurtulmus, a deputy Turkish prime minister and the government's official spokesman, said officials from the two sides were holding more meetings to discuss normalization.