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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 646

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The Liberian-flagged bulk carrier Eternity C is seen in Split, Croatia, January 30, 2023. (Sinisa Aljinovic via AP)
July 8, 2025, 2:01 pm
Four killed in attack by Yemen’s Houthis on Greek-owned ship in Red Sea
Eternity C targeted by sea drones and RPGs fired from speedboats, say maritime security sources; Iran-backed rebels don’t claim assault, but are accused by US, EU, exiled government
By Agencies and ToI Staff
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
Illustrative: Tugboats are moored next to the Israeli-linked tanker MT Mercer Street, off the Fujairah port in the United Arab Emirates, on August 3, 2021. (Karim Sahib/AFP)
August 4, 2021, 3:11 pm
Britain says UN Security Council ‘must respond to Iran’s destabilizing actions’
UK foreign secretary says he wrote to head of international body, along with Romania and Liberia, over Tehran’s ‘lack of respect for international law’ with deadly attack on ship
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid meets with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Rome, on June 27, 2021. (Andrew Harnik/AP)
July 5, 2021, 8:20 am
Lapid fumbles July 4 message with tweet of Liberia flag
Foreign minister sends message to mark US Independence Day with national banner of African nation instead of the Stars and Stripes
By ToI Staff
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 a plane 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
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