President Reuven Rivlin hosts Khaled Azmi, Egypt’s ambassador to Israel, at his Jerusalem residence to discuss the two neighboring countries response to the widening COVID-19 pandemic.
“I said that Israel will cooperate in any way with Egypt and the peoples of the region in the fight against the disease,” Rivlin says after the meeting.
Egypt has announced fewer coronavirus patients than Israel, 456 to 2,495, but has recorded 21 deaths from the virus, versus six in Israel.
The meeting is also held to mark the 41st anniversary since the signing of the Israel-Egypt peace treaty, which is tomorrow.
— Raphael Ahren
President Reuven Rivlin hosts Khaled Azmi, Egypt’s ambassador to Israel, at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem on March 26, 2020. (Mark Neyman/GPO)
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Thursday, March 26, 2020
