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Addressing the summit of the Economic Community of West African States in June 2017—the first non-African leader to do so—then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu proudly declared, "Israel is coming back to Africa, and Africa is coming back to Israel."[1]

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Israel’s journalists are not renowned for their capacity to surprise. Kudos, then, to Raphael Ahren. He has proven that it is possible to be rewarded by someone you have dragged through the mud. Ahren has just started a new job as the spokesperson for Emanuele Giaufret, the European Union’s ambassador in Tel Aviv. We are very much looking forward @RaphaelAhren to welcome such a great addition to the dedicated team at @EUinIsrael, working relentlessly to advance ����s interests and e...

Who did I depend on when telling the story of Israel— the place and the people—in this extraordinary year? Who stood invisibly behind me, whispering a fresh insight, an incisive analysis, an unforgettable story, while I taught on distance learning platforms? Each of the gifted men and women listed below, who were invaluable in my work of bringing Israel and the global Jewish people to the scores of classrooms we reached virtually in 2020. But there is another audience they impacted, an audi...

Judah Ari Gross is The Times of Israels military correspondent. The national flags of Morocco, Israel and the United States on an El Al plane to Morocco flying a delegation to finalize a normalization deal between Jerusalem and Rabat, at Ben Gurion airport, near Tel Aviv, December 22, 2020. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel) RABAT, Morocco — Israel’s renewed ties with the Kingdom of Morocco are substantively different from its normalization agreements with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrai...

19 shares This week The Times of Israel Podcast takes you behind the scenes at the paper with our departing diplomatic correspondent Raphael Ahren, who tells us what it’s like to jet set around the world with Israel’s prime minister. Next, we’ll hear from our new science and health reporter Nathan Jeffay, who has gotten very little sleep since joining us this past March to cover the coronavirus pandemic. Ahren speaks four languages fluently — a skill that has served him well as he...

0 shares The weekly cabinet meeting, which had been pushed off this week to tomorrow, faces an additional delay until Thursday amid disagreements between the Likud and Blue and White parties over the agenda, Hebrew-language media reports. The government is expected to be dissolved next week and elections called for the fourth time in under two years. Im proud to work at The Times of Israel I’ll tell you the truth: Life here in Israel isn’t always easy. But its full of beauty an...

0 shares The United States places a pro-Iranian group based in Bahrain on its global terror blacklist, accusing it of plotting attacks on US troops in the tiny Gulf kingdom. The group, Saraya al-Mukhtar, poses a “significant risk of committing acts of terrorism that threaten the national security and foreign policy of the United States,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says in a statement. “Saraya al-Mukhtar is an Iran-backed terrorist organization based in Bahrain, reportedly receiv...

0 shares The daughter of a 74-year-old Austrian citizen imprisoned in Iran has told of her fears for her father’s health after he started displaying coronavirus symptoms. “He started suffering from fever last Thursday, but he doesn’t get the medical attention he needs, and he was denied a COVID test,” Fanak Mani, daughter of Massud Mossaheb, tells AFP of her father’s treatment in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison. Mossaheb was detained while traveling in Iran with a delegation fr...