Israel continues to push for rescue workers to be given access to the site of a deadly plane in crash in Ethiopia in order to recover the remains of a pair of Israeli victims, the Foreign Ministry says.
As part of these efforts, Prime Minister Netanyahu speaks by phone with his Ethiopian counterpart Abiy Ahmed.
The Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed Sunday shortly after taking off from the capital Addis Abada, killing 157 people including Israelis Shimon Re’em and Avraham Matsliah.
Acting Foreign Minister Israel Katz speaks today with Re’em and Matsliah’s families to update them on efforts to identity their bodies, according to the Foreign Ministry.
To secure access for Israeli rescuers to the crash site, the Israeli ambassador in Addis Ababa speaks with the CEO of Ethiopian Airlines, while the deputy director-general of the Foreign Ministry’s Africa branch speaks with the Ethiopian foreign minister.
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