The saga of foreign ministers: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday instructed all government ministries to approve in advance any secret diplomatic meeting with the Prime Minister's Office. According to the directive, any publication of a secret meeting will require Prime Minister Netanyahu's personal approval.
Netanyahu's announcement follows Foreign Minister Eli Cohen's announcement that he met last week with his Libyan counterpart, Najla al-Mankush. The publication of the meeting led to riots in the Muslim country and the ouster of the foreign minister, who fled the country.
This was the first ever meeting between the foreign ministers of the two countries, and the Foreign Ministry said that the meeting discussed the historical ties between the peoples, the heritage of Libyan Jews, and the possibility of cooperation between the two countries and Israeli assistance in humanitarian issues, agriculture, water management and more.
Following the unraveling of the meeting by the Israeli foreign minister, hundreds of Libyans took to the streets on Sunday evening to protest the foreign minister's meeting with her Israeli counterpart Eli Cohen. The protesters waved Palestinian flags, burned tires and set Israeli flags on fire as a sign of opposition to what they perceived as an act of normalization.
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