Israel is preparing for a historic visit from Malian Prime Minister Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga in the coming weeks, Channel 13 reports.
The report says Maiga’s visit to Israel will be before the April 9 elections.
The Muslim majority country severed ties with Israel in 1973 following the Yom Kippur War. Last year, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with the Malian president on the sidelines of a summit in Liberia. At the end of the meeting, Netanyahu’s office released a statement saying the countries agreed to “warm relations.”
The news comes days after Netanyahu flew to Chad for a single-day visit to re-establish ties with the Muslim-majority country after 47 years.
Later on Sunday, al-Qaeda gunmen, angered by Chad resuming ties with Israel, killed 10 Chadian peacekeepers and injured at least 25 others in an attack on a UN camp in northern Mali.
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