
Israel-Morocco Ties Take Flight: First Direct Tel Aviv to Marrakech Route Launches
An aircraft from the Israeli airline Israir will land in Marrakech on Sunday, July 25th. This is the first direct flight between Morocco and Israel.

An aircraft from the Israeli airline Israir will land in Marrakech on Sunday, July 25th. This is the first direct flight between Morocco and Israel.

Morocco is accused of having targeted the phone numbers of journalists, activists and French personalities, including President Emmanuel Macron, using the Israeli Pegasus software. Will this affair strain relations between Morocco and France?

The ambassadors of Morocco and Israel in Vienna recently planted an Atlas cedar at the embassy of the Hebrew state, a symbol of the growing peace and friendship between the two countries.

Algeria, one of the countries affected by the Israeli Pegasus software, reacted to the espionage accusations against [Morocco]. The eastern neighbor "vigorously condemns this inadmissible systematic violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms."

[Nasser Bourita], Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Residing Abroad, reacted to the alleged infiltration of the phones of several national and foreign public figures through the Israeli Pegasus software. He hammers that any person or organization making accusations against Morocco will have to provide proof, or assume its slanderous denunciation before the courts.

Morocco would have used the Israeli software Pegasus to spy on deputy François de Rugy, when he was Minister of Ecological Transition (2018-2019). The elected official demands explanations.

Shalev Hulio, CEO of the Israeli company NSO, assures that the numbers of King Mohammed VI , President Emmanuel Macron and the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) have never been targeted using the Pegasus spyware. Allegations that call into question the results of the investigation conducted by the international consortium created by Forbidden Stories.

King Mohammed VI and members of the royal family would have been selected as targets by a user of the Israeli Pegasus software. This is what the investigation conducted by the international consortium created by Forbidden Stories reveals.

Yair Lapid, the Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs, has confirmed that he will visit Morocco for an official visit, the first for a senior Israeli diplomat.

Morocco is said to have spied on numerous Algerian officials, including Saïd Bouteflika, brother of the former ousted President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, using the Israeli software Pegasus. This is what the newspaper Le Monde claims, which published an investigation conducted on 6,000 numbers.

The launch of direct flights between Israel and Morocco from Sunday, July 25 is taking shape. Professionals in the sector expect to welcome 50,000 Israeli tourists in the kingdom.

Michel Ohayon, a real estate tycoon in France and Israel, will buy Go sport, a brand present in Morocco . The Competition Authority gave its approval on Thursday, July 15.