Two Israeli ministers are expected Sunday and Monday in Morocco, in the wake of the first official visit of the Israeli army’s chief commander.
According to AFP, which cites the Israeli liaison office in Rabat, this is a new boost to the normalization between the two states.
Davis Gorvin, head of the Israeli liaison office in Rabat, confirmed the news in a tweet today.
The Minister of Regional Cooperation, Issawi Frej, an Israeli Arab Muslim, will make an official visit to Morocco from July 24 to 28.
A former member of the left-wing Meretz party, he will be accompanied by a delegation of Jewish and Arab Israeli women journalists as part of a regional forum he created with the aim of “strengthening the voice of women in the media,” he said.
An initiative that comes as the death of the American-Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, killed in May while covering an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank, has aroused emotion and indignation in the media and on social networks in Morocco.
Issawi Frej, quoted in the statement of the Israeli liaison office, hailed Morocco as “a model of cohabitation between people of different religions”.
He explained that he was going there to “develop joint initiatives in the field of culture, communications and sports.
In addition, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice Gideon Saar will begin a four-day working visit to Morocco from Monday.
A trip focused on legal cooperation, the first of its kind since the resumption of diplomatic ties between Israel and Morocco in late 2020. A partnership agreement will be signed in this area, it adds.
The same source recalls that Morocco and Israel have consolidated their strategic and military alliance, this week, on the occasion of the visit of the Chief of Staff of the Israeli army Aviv Kochavi.
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