A year after the signed Al Taif agreement between Saudi Arabia and Yemen ,and during the Hajj period of that year, 4 Yemeni men made an assassination attempt on King Abdul-Aziz’ s life as he was performing circumambulation around Al-Kaaba on the tenth of Thul­-Hiija,(1353H/1935).

Despite the declared armistice between Saudi Arabia and Yemen, a repercussion ensued in the form of an attempt by two Yemenis on the life of King Abdul-Aziz during the Hajj of that same year 1353/1935, as he performed the “Tawaf” (the circumambulation of the Kaabah).

After the appointment of King Abdulaziz to his son Saud as a Crown Prince in 1932, and Saud’s successful visit to Egypt in (1935), he decided to further his son’s to travel overseas and meet with heads of states.

On the internal level Prince Saud believed that one of his responsibilities was to tour the country and visit every village and every tribe in order to personally get to know the needs of his people. However, he managed to realize his goal more than once during different stages of his life. Like his father, his trips were always a source of happiness for the remote villages and scattered tribal locations which he visited.

Regardless of what was mentioned above, the last stages of the war were characterized by certain important events that influenced the Palestinian issue. Amongst those events was the meeting in Egypt between King Abdul-Aziz and the American president Roosevelt in 1364H /February 1945, and with Winston Churchill the prime Minister of Great Britain three days later.

Crown prince Saud was chosen by his Father, as a sign of his pleasure, trust in him and support for his status as successor, to represent him at all the relevant ceremonies, leading the Pilgrimage and delivering the annual address.