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Liberian President George Weah speaks during a soccer event in Jerusalem on February 27, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
March 1, 2019, 10:51 pm
Netanyahu hosts Liberian leader amid push to boost Africa ties
‘Africa is coming to Israel and so is the entire world,’ PM tells former soccer star turned politician George Weah
By AFP
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at a welcoming ceremony in his honor, as he arrives in Monrovia, Liberia for an official state visit, on June 4, 2017. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
June 4, 2017, 6:16 pm
Netanyahu’s meeting with Togo president rescheduled after their bodyguards scuffle
PM’s security personnel said to bar Gnassingbé’s bodyguards from entering the room, leading to ‘shoving’ and ‘punching’
By TOI staff and Raphael Ahren
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen at the airport in Liberia's capital Monrovia after arriving for an official state visit on June 4, 2017. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)
June 4, 2017, 5:06 pm
Seeking to boost ties, Netanyahu meets with African leaders
In Monrovia to attend economic summit, PM says improving relations with Israel must be translated into support at the UN
By Alexander Fulbright and Raphael Ahren
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara boarding the airplane to New York for an official state visit to the US, September 20, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
June 4, 2017, 12:39 am
PM heads to West African summit seeking support at UN
Netanyahu will be first non-African leader to address ECOWAS conference; Moroccan king to boycott over ‘context of tension and controversy’
By Alexander Fulbright and Raphael Ahren
Moroccan King Mohamed VI in 2016 (YouTube screenshot)
June 2, 2017, 8:17 pm
Morocco king boycotts Africa summit to avoid Netanyahu
Amidst some nations’ discontent over Israeli presence, king prefers visit ‘not take place in a context of tension and controversy’
By AFP
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, board their airplane to Africa for an official state visit in the continent on July 4, 2016 (Kobi Gideon / GPO)
May 26, 2017, 1:44 am
Netanyahu to travel to Africa for second time in year
After last summer’s historic four-country tour through East Africa, PM now heading to June 4 economic summit in Liberia
By Raphael Ahren
Delegates from West Africa at an agricultural conference in Israel, December 5, 2016 (courtesy Mashav)
December 5, 2016, 12:26 pm
African ministers in Israel for first-ever agricultural summit
Top officials from 13 West African states come to Jerusalem to discuss sustainable productivity in arid and semi-arid regions
By Raphael Ahren
Miriam Eshkol, wife of Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, dancing with then Ugandan foreign minister Sam Odaka and army chief (and later president) Idi Amin on a visit to an army base outside Kampala, June, 1966. (GPO)
June 29, 2016, 7:47 pm
When the Israeli prime minister’s wife took a twirl with Idi Amin
As Netanyahu prepares for a whirlwind trip to Rwanda, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda next week, Israel releases previously unseen pictures of previous PMs’ visits to Africa
By Raphael Ahren
This file photo taken on August 15, 2014 shows a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) medical worker wearing protective clothing while speaking to a colleague at an MSF facility in Kailahun, Sierra Leone. (Carl de Souza/AFP)
January 17, 2016, 4:31 am
Sierra Leone quarantines 109 after new Ebola death
World Health Organization confirms woman, 22, died of the tropical fever, whose latest outbreak killed 11,000
By AFP
Illustrative photo of health officials disinfecting a room that had been inhabited by suspected Ebola in Liberia, on September 30, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Jerome Delay, File)
May 9, 2015, 3:19 pm
World Health Organization: Liberia free of Ebola
New cases of deadly disease reported in neighboring Sierra Leone and Guinea
By Jonathan PAYE-LAYLEH
Medical personnel disinfect a room where suspected Ebola sufferers were quarantined in the village of Freeman Reserve, Liberia, September 30, 2014. (Illustrative photo: AP/Jerome Delay, File)
February 11, 2015, 6:01 am
US withdrawing most troops fighting Ebola in West Africa
Move comes amid sharp decline in reported cases of deadly virus, though authorities careful not to declare health crisis over
By AP
Electron micrograph of an Ebola virus virion (photo credit: CDC microbiologist Cynthia Goldsmith/Wikimedia)
December 12, 2014, 9:31 am
Israel donates $10 million to UN Ebola fund
Foreign Ministry says move reflects commitment to help fight the deadly African epidemic
By Itamar Sharon
Electron micrograph of an Ebola virus virion (photo credit: CDC microbiologist Cynthia Goldsmith/Wikimedia)
November 27, 2014, 5:51 am
Experimental Ebola vaccine shows promise in first-stage testing
US researchers say 20 volunteers who received shot developed antibodies to the virus, which has killed over 5,600 so far
By AP
IsraAID psychosocial trauma specialists Hela Yaniv (left), and Sheri Oz leading a counseling and training session for service providers in Sierra Leone, on October 27, 2014. (photo credit: Courtesy IsraAID/JTA)
November 14, 2014, 4:08 am
Jews fight Ebola in Africa from the head down
IsraAID provides psychosocial counseling and training to those tackling the epidemic on the ground
By Uriel Heilman
Illustrative photo of health officials disinfecting a room that had been inhabited by suspected Ebola in Liberia, on September 30, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Jerome Delay, File)
October 29, 2014, 12:49 am
Australia halts visas from Ebola-affected region
Even West Africans with permanent visas must submit to 21-day quarantine before traveling
By AP
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