A webinar was recently organized for Moroccan and Israeli tourism players. Initiated by the Moroccan Travel Management Club, it was an opportunity for the two parties to exchange on their respective tourism potentials and lay the foundations for a new win-win economic partnership.
The Moroccan-Israeli Friendship Association (MIFA) has just been created in the United States to strengthen relations between the two countries. Rabbi Gad Bouskila, a member of the Moroccan Jewish Center Netivot Israel Congregation in Brooklyn (New York), is the honorary president.
In the perspective of the next legislative elections, Israel is preparing to open polling stations in three Arab countries, including Morocco with which it has recently normalized its relations. A first.
Since the early 2000s, Israel has authorized the medical use of cannabis and even its export, in 2019. Seeing all the potential it has, Morocco would benefit from following its example.
A meeting brought together the Moroccan Ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, Lahcen Mahraoui, and his Israeli counterpart Ophir Kariv to strengthen the ties between the kingdom and Israel. It comes more than two months after the normalization of relations between the two countries.
In the phone call he had with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last Wednesday, current US President Joe Biden affirmed "US support for the recent normalization of relations between Israel and countries in the Arab and Muslim world." This is reassuring for Morocco .
More than two months after the resumption of diplomatic relations between Morocco and Israel, Nezha Hayat, president of the Moroccan Capital Market Authority (AMMC) and her Israeli counterpart, Anat Guetta, exchanged for the first time, this Wednesday, February 17, 2021 by videoconference. This meeting helped to strengthen the mutual understanding of the financial markets of the two countries.
Israel could deliver a major order of the latest generation of drones to Morocco . These are the latest generation Bluebird Aero Systems drones ordered from Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) thanks to a major UAV agreement with the Kingdom.
In order to identify the potential and opportunities in Morocco and Israel, as well as the partnership modalities to capture tourist flows, Moroccan travel agents organized a business conference with their Israeli counterparts. The meeting was attended by representatives from the Regional Tourism Councils of Marrakech and Casablanca, Royal Air Maroc (RAM), the ONMT, the Tourism Observatory, cruise professionals, etc.
Arrived in Morocco a few days ago, the head of the Israeli liaison office in Rabat in Morocco , David Govrin, is discovering the beauty of this city and its tourist attractions on a daily basis. Wearing a Moroccan djellaba, the former Israeli ambassador to Egypt expressed his delight in wearing "elegant and luxurious clothes, sprinkled with the scents of ancient history".
Since the normalization of relations between Morocco and Israel , several projects are in the works. Thus, many personalities from the business world in various sectors of the economy like Joseph Levy, have addressed the issue of the creation of a Chamber of Commerce in Casablanca .
The Minister of National Education and Vocational Training, Saaïd Amzazi , had a telephone conversation on Wednesday evening with his Israeli counterpart, Yoav Galant. The two officials agreed to set up exchange programs for students from both countries.