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Israel-Rwanda relations

Dr. Lise Mumporeze, a Rwanda genocide survivor, stands in the backyard of the Save a Child's Heart Legacy Heritage Children's Home in Holon on the last day of her training program in Israel before she returns to Rwanda to become the first pediatric intensive care specialist in the country on November 3, 2025. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
November 19, 2025, 10:50 am
Come war, peace or pandemic, African doctors train in Israel to save lives back home
Some 165 medical professionals have received fellowships through Save a Child’s Heart; the nonprofit has helped over 8,000 kids from around the world since 1995
By Diana Bletter
President Isaac Herzog arrives in Rwanda to attend ceremony marking 30 years since the Rwandan genocide, April 7, 2024. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)
April 7, 2024, 12:57 pm
Herzog visits Rwanda for genocide memorial; will highlight hostages, terrorism
Event on 30th anniversary of killing spree also attended by US and French ex-presidents Clinton and Sarkozy
By ToI Staff
September 4, 2019, 6:28 am
Chabad opens its first center in Rwanda
Rabbi Chaim and Dina Bar Sella arrived in the city last week and have already managed to gather a minyan for Shabbat prayers
By JTA
Rwandan Foreign Minister Richard Sezibera, left, and the director-general of Israel's Foreign Ministry Yuval Rotem open Israel's new embassy in Kigali, Rwanda, April 1, 2019 (courtesy MFA)
April 1, 2019, 3:48 pm
Boosting diplomatic drive to Africa, Israel opens embassy in Rwanda
New mission in Kigali is Israel’s 11th embassy on the continent; ‘Rwanda has proven to be a steady, true friend,’ Foreign Ministry says
By Raphael Ahren
Israel's new Ambassador to Rwanda, Ron Adam, left, presents his credentials to Rwanda President Paul Kagame, on February 21, 2019. (Office of the President of Rwanda)
February 22, 2019, 6:48 pm
Boosting Africa ties, Israel opens first embassy in Rwanda
Netanyahu has made expanding Jerusalem’s relations in Africa a key component of his foreign policy
By AFP and ToI Staff
A RwandAir plane, September 21, 2016. (Wikipedia/Pedro Aragão CC-BY-SA-3.0)
January 7, 2019, 5:18 pm
Israel, Rwanda to open direct flight between countries ‘within months’
Aviation agreement caps several weeks of talks between Transportation Ministry and Kigali amid Israeli bid to boost diplomatic ties with Africa
By Michael Bachner
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) meets with Rwandan President Paul Kagame (L) in New York, September 27, 2018 (Avi Ohayon/GPO)
September 29, 2018, 8:00 pm
Netanyahu says Israel, Rwanda to open mutual embassies
PM states Kigali officials also interested in starting direct flights to Tel Aviv
By Raphael Ahren
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (R) in New York, September 27, 2018. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)
September 28, 2018, 8:22 pm
PM asks UN secretary-general to request IAEA investigation of Iran nuclear sites
Netanyahu wants inspections of warehouse whose existence he revealed in UNGA speech; also meets Rwandan president to discuss Iranian aggression
By ToI Staff
Hundreds of asylum seekers demonstrate in Levinsky Park in south Tel Aviv against the deportation deal with Uganda on April 8, 2018. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
April 10, 2018, 1:02 pm
Despite Ugandan denials, deportation plan still on, state tells court
State says unnamed African country will accept thousands of asylum seekers though agreement with Rwanda is off, asks for more time
By Melanie Lidman
April 10, 2018, 10:22 am
State set to detail much-delayed migrant deportation plans to High Court
Israel reportedly ‘rewarded’ unnamed African country in exchange for possibly taking in thousands of Sudanese, Eritrean nationals
By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff
African asylum seekers set up a mock slave auction as part of a protest outside the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv, against their deportation, on April 3, 2018. (Miriam Alster/ Flash90)
April 8, 2018, 11:42 pm
State said set to tell High Court migrant deportation deal to Uganda still on
Despite its denial, Kampala said to still be willing to accept asylum seekers; Israel also reportedly mulls sending Eritreans back home
By ToI Staff
In this April 3, 2018, photo, African migrants cross a street in southern Tel Aviv. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
April 6, 2018, 8:39 am
US Jewish groups urge Netanyahu not to deport African migrants
Letter says Israel has a special obligation to ‘protect victims of persecution who have fled their countries seeking safety’
By ToI Staff
Detained African migrants standing outside the Holot detention center, located in Israel's southern Negev desert near the Egyptian border, February 4, 2018. (MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP)
April 5, 2018, 12:38 am
Baffled Rwanda denies Netanyahu claim that NIF pushed it to scrap migrant deal
Olivier Nduhungirehe says his government not at all familiar with the Israeli NGO, adds that suggesting a foreign organization could sway his nation’s policies was preposterous
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, is greeted by the Ugandan president, Yoweri Museveni, on his arrival in at Entebbe airport in Uganda on Monday, July 4, 2016 (AP Photo/Stephen Wandera)
April 4, 2018, 4:25 pm
Uganda denies a deal with Israel to ‘dump their refugees here’
Joining Rwanda, African nation’s foreign minister says there was no understanding, ‘formal or informal,’ with Jewish state
By AP and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) meets with Rwandan President Paul Kagame at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on January 24, 2018. (GPO)
April 3, 2018, 9:21 am
Outed by Netanyahu as ‘third-party country,’ Rwanda denies migrant agreement
In flip-flop, PM accuses African country of caving to pressure; Rwandan minister: ‘There was never a deal with Israel’
By ToI Staff
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