Israel sends matzahs, Passover items to Jews in… Egypt

As Jews across the world ready to celebrate the Exodus from Egypt later this week, the Israeli government was busy sending matzahs and other essential Passover items to the Jewish community in Egypt.

In a “complex operation,” Israel’s Embassy in Cairo and Jewish organizations managed to get boxes of kosher for Passover food to the Jewish communities in Cairo and Alexandria, the Foreign Ministry says in a statement.

“Even in the difficult reality created by the worldwide coronavirus crisis, we are not forgetting our brothers in the small Jewish community of Egypt,” Foreign Minister Israel Katz says. “And I am happy that we could help them celebrate Passover this year according to religious law. The ties with Jewish communities around the world is a central aspect of Israeli diplomacy, and at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its missions across the globe.”

— Raphael Ahren