Benjamin Netanyahu has served as prime minister of Israel for more time than anyone else in the country’s history.

But as he prepares to return to office, he’s setting another ambitious goal: a peace agreement with Saudi Arabia that would, he told the Washington Examiner in an exclusive interview, “effectively end the Arab-Israeli conflict.”

“And I believe we can get peace with other countries as well if we do that,” Netanyahu said, adding that a formal peace with the Saudis would “expand the circle of peace beyond our wildest dreams.”

During Netanyahu’s previous term in office, the Trump administration helped broker what became known as the Abraham Accords, a series of peace and normalization agreements between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan. The breakthroughs with the UAE and Bahrain were seen as tacit recognition by the Saudis since their opposition would have scuttled the agreements. Riyadh’s status as the anchor of the Sunni Gulf bloc and as a leading petrostate make it a powerful counterweight to Iran, which is seeking nuclear capability and sponsors hostile proxy governments on Israel’s borders. The Obama administration’s elevation of Iran’s standing in the region, in part through its nuclear deal that Trump later exited, was seen as one of the causes of the increased public cooperation between Israel and the Gulf States.