A medical delegation from Indonesia secretly visited Israel last week.
The Indonesian representatives met with medical professionals and discussed dealing with the corona virus.
"Israel Today" has learned that political meetings have also been held with officials in the Foreign Ministry.
As you may recall, Indonesia is the largest Muslim country in the world, numbering about 270 million people and has no formal ties with Israel.
For this reason, the visit, the existence of which was revealed in IDF waves, took place under a cloak of secrecy.
Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a meeting with journalists from Indonesia in 2016, Photo: Haim Tzach / GPO
It should be emphasized that for many years there have been informal contacts between the countries as well as stable trade relations.
In the 1980s, Israel sold obsolete Air Force fighter jets to Indonesia.
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin visited the country in 1993 and Minister Shimon Peres in 2005.
According to various reports, Defense Minister Bnei Gantz secretly visited the country several months ago.
In recent months, the United States has been making efforts to warm up ties between Israel and the major Muslim state. Senior officials in the Biden administration have discussed the matter with government ministers in Jakarta. It should be noted that Israel's former ambassador to the United States, Gilad Ardan, told Israel Today Its because there is a chance for a breakthrough between Israel and a large Muslim country.
"Hopefully we will see the results in a few months. There is a chance. Maybe unlike in the beginning, the administration is investing in it more deeply and at more senior levels."
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