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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 373

Israel-Africa relations

Liberian President George Weah meets Foreign Minister Eli Cohen in Jerusalem, July 4, 2023. (Miri Shimonovich/GPO)
July 5, 2023, 11:25 am
Visiting Jerusalem, Liberian president vows to open embassy in Israel
Weah meets with Netanyahu, Herzog and Cohen as countries pledge to deepen cooperation; Liberian leader puts note in Western Wall, prays for soccer star son’s success
By ToI Staff
Security guards ask an Israeli observer delegation headed by Sharon Bar-Li (center) to leave the African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on February 18, 2023. (Screen capture/Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 19, 2023, 6:01 pm
With its envoy booted, Israel avoids African Union summit closing ceremony
Sharon Bar-li was escorted out of regional assembly on Saturday, apparently at behest of South Africa and Algeria, as Israel’s status continues to split 55-member bloc
By Lazar Berman
Security guards ask an Israeli observer delegation headed by Sharon Bar-Li (center) to leave the African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on February 18, 2023. (Screen capture/Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 19, 2023, 3:41 pm
South Africa governing party hails ouster of Israeli envoy from African Union summit
Sharon Bar-li was escorted out of regional assembly, apparently at behest of South Africa and Algeria, in move one official says was coordinated by Iran
By AFP
Security guards ask an Israeli observer delegation headed by Sharon Bar-Li (center) to leave the African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on February 18, 2023. (Screen capture/Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 18, 2023, 12:52 pm
Israeli observer delegation kicked out of African Union summit in Addis Ababa
Foreign Ministry blames South Africa and Algeria for severe diplomatic breach; Israel gained official observer status in 2021
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Chad's President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno hold up pieces of ribbon after a ceremony opening the embassy of Chad in Israel on February 2, 2023 (Haim Zach / GPO)
February 2, 2023, 2:15 pm
Netanyahu joins Chad’s president to open new embassy in Israel
Both leaders hail ‘historic’ moment, pay tribute to Mahamat Idriss, Deby Itno’s slain father, who was instrumental in restoring long-severed ties in 2019
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, welcomes Chad's President Mahamat Deby in Jerusalem, February 1, 2023 ((Kobi Gideon/GPO)
February 1, 2023, 6:35 pm
Chad’s president meets with Netanyahu and Mossad chief ahead of embassy opening
Mahamat Deby’s father decided in 2019 to restore relations with Israel for the first time since 1972, as Israel works to expand ties in Africa
By Lazar Berman
Rescuers walk in the rubble of a building following Israeli airstrikes in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on August 7, 2022, amid fighting between the Israel Defense Forces and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group. (Said Khatib/AFP)
August 7, 2022, 5:13 pm
Head of African Union accuses Israel of targeting civilians in Gaza airstrikes
Commission that leads continental alliance ‘strongly condemns’ Israel for allegedly violating international law, reiterates support for Palestinians
By AFP and ToI Staff
Simon Seroussi, spokesman for Israel's embassy in France (L), Magatte Seye, Senegal's envoy to France, Ben Bourgel, Israel's envoy to Senegal, and Anne-Sophie Sebban-Bécache, director of AJC Paris, speak at the Israel Back to Africa summit in Paris, May 31, 2022. (MFA)
June 4, 2022, 6:00 pm
‘Israel is back’: Revitalized ties in Africa touted at Paris conference
Officials from nations that don’t recognize Israel among those at event highlighting Jewish nation’s unique potential on continent; ‘Palestinian issue a non-issue,’ says envoy
By Lazar Berman
Members of the Falashmura community arrive at Ben Gurion Airport, outside Tel Aviv, on June 1, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
June 2, 2022, 2:04 pm
Daily Briefing June 2: Israel’s new Ethiopian immigrants & historic ties with Africa
News editor Amy Spiro debriefs after a trip to Ethiopia; diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman recaps a Paris conference on Israel-Africa relations, plus shares Shabbat in Istanbul
By ToI Staff
FM Gabi Ashkenazi, right, and his Malawian counterpart, Eisenhower Mkaka, at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, November 3, 2020 (Avo Ohayun/GPO)
November 3, 2020, 7:58 pm
Malawi vows to open embassy in Jerusalem by next summer
Announcement made by FM Eisenhower Mkaka during visit to Israel; mission would be third embassy in capital, and first of an African country
By Raphael Ahren
Sudanese Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan, head of the transitional government, in June 2019. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
February 3, 2020, 7:01 pm
Netanyahu meets leader of Sudan; former foes to move toward normalization
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan holds talks with Israeli PM in Uganda, marking dramatic turnaround; Israeli flights may soon be allowed over Sudan, cutting hours off route to South America
By Raphael Ahren
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and his wife, Sara (L) speak with reporters at Ben Gurion Airport, February 3, 2020 (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
February 3, 2020, 6:46 am
Heading to Uganda for 1-day trip, PM hopes to bring back ‘very good news’
In Entebbe, Netanyahu to meet with president, other leaders whose identities are kept under wraps; Mossad chief said to join delegation
By Raphael Ahren
Exhibit photo of Kenyan artist Cyrus Kabiru wearing the 'Jaffa Sun' glasses he created as part of his ongoing C-Stunners series. (Courtesy of Serge Tiroche and the Africa First Collection)
September 6, 2019, 10:10 am
After Tel Aviv residency, African artists paint new picture of Israel back home
Tel Aviv art dealer Serge Tiroche brings artists from the developing world into the international spotlight by inviting rising stars to partake and reconceive of the Holy Land
By Bernard Dichek
US-Israeli businesswoman Shari Arison seen leaving a police investigation at the Lahav 433 serious crime unit, in Lod, August 12, 2018. (Flash90)
May 26, 2019, 6:06 pm
Police to recommend charges against Israel’s richest woman
Officers say Shari Arison and executives of her construction firm had ‘culture of bribery’ in payoffs to African countries
By ToI Staff
Students at Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium high school in Tel Aviv producing spirulina. (Courtesy - JustSpirulina.org )
May 20, 2019, 5:30 am
A Tel Aviv high school program is helping to feed the world, with spirulina
Experts from Congo visit Gymnasium Herzliya to learn from students how to produce the algae, a malnutrition-fighting wonder-food
By ToI Staff
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