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First official visit after 20 years: Lapid took off for Morocco
Lapid will inaugurate the Israeli delegation in Rabat, as the first Israeli foreign minister to arrive in the North African country in two decades.
This, after the countries renewed diplomatic relations in December 2020, as part of a tripartite agreement with the United States under the Trump administration. Lapid is expected to meet with his Moroccan counterpart and the Minister of Tourism
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Wednesday, 11 August, 2021, 06:46 Updated: 07:17
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Foreign Minister Yair Lapid took off this morning (Wednesday) for Rabat, the capital of Morocco, to inaugurate the Israeli representation in the country.
This is the Israeli Foreign Minister's first official visit to the country in more than 20 years.
In December last year, Israel and Morocco renewed diplomatic relations between them, which were severed following the outbreak of the second intifada in 2000. The renewal of relations was part of a tripartite agreement with the United States, in which the Trump administration recognized Moroccan sovereignty over the occupied Western Sahara.
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The first Israeli foreign minister to land in Morocco after 20 years.
Torch (Photo: Flash 90, Olbia Fitoussi)
The last Israeli foreign minister to pay an official bilateral visit to Morocco was David Levy in 1999. In 2003, following the severance of diplomatic relations, Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom visited the country to attend an international economic conference, but it was not an official visit.
Lapid will meet today with Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Burita at the Foreign Ministry in Rabat.
He is also expected to meet with Morocco's tourism minister.
On Thursday, Lapid will inaugurate the Israeli diplomatic mission in Rabat, which opened a few months ago.
He will then travel to Casablanca where he will meet with representatives of the Jewish community as well as attend an economic conference.
Before leaving for Israel on Thursday, Lapid will hold a press conference with representatives of the Moroccan media.
Departure of the Israeli delegation to Morocco led by Meir Ben Shabbat December 2020 (Photo: Official website, Sivan Faraj)
Together with Lapid, Minister Meir Cohen, who is a native of the country in the country of Mogdor, is flying to Morocco.
The chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Ram Ben-Barak, also joined the trip. Ben-Barak was involved as a private citizen in the first contacts for the renewal of relations between Israel and Morocco during 2017. Greenblatt.
during the visit of the torch is expected in Israel and Morocco sign several cooperation agreements in the areas of economic and discuss the issue of the fight happen.
Moroccans feared in the first months the office of administration Biden, the US president will cancel the previous decision to recognize Western Sahara as part of Morocco. This made them wait Continue Promoting relations with Israel, but as reported in Walla! The Biden administration has decided not to overturn Trump's decision - and this has given renewed momentum to relations between the two countries.
Moroccans feared he would overturn Trump's decision to recognize Western Sahara as part of Morocco.
President Biden (Photo: Reuters, Evelyn Hoxstein)
In recent weeks, direct flights have begun between Israel and Morocco.
At this stage, there are three flights a week and it is estimated that within a few months there will be a flight between the countries once a day.
A few weeks ago, a Moroccan Air Force plane arrived in Israel, carrying a team from the Moroccan army's anti-terrorism unit to participate in an international exercise held in Israel.
This is the first time in more than 20 years that Moroccan soldiers have visited Israel and the first time ever that they have participated in a military exercise in Israel.
A few days later, the head of the Israel Cyber Defense Authority, Yigal Ona Barbat, visited and signed a cooperation agreement in the field of cyber.
The Moroccans published the signing of the agreement.
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