Herzog told the visitors that their arrival carried particular weight at a time of global misinformation about Israel, saying their firsthand experience would help counter distorted narratives abroad.
The group, being hosted by the Israeli Foreign Ministry, will visit the southern Israel communities attacked during the Oct. 7th massacre and will also meet with former Israeli hostages.
Israel’s Save a Child’s Heart program delivers life-saving surgeries to thousands of children in Africa while training local doctors to bring this success back home.
'It is incredibly rewarding to see the doctors we trained in Israel now leading life-saving missions and building sustainable cardiac care programs in their home countries.'
'ACA - 4 - HIM is calling the world to bring hostages back home. Israel and Jews have the right to exist and defend themselves like any other country.'
'We believe that our cooperation can help not only advance our relations, but it is also part of Israel's coming back to Africa and Africa coming back to Israel,' said the Israeli premier.
The sixth and final ambassador to present her letters of credence was the Ambassador of Palau, H.E. Ms. Ilana Seid, the country’s first ambassador to the State of Israel.
Israel has relations with 46 countries in Africa, in the framework of which many and varied collaborations are conducted in the fields of development, trade and aid.
This week, the Israeli NGO Innovation: Africa brought clean running water for the first time to the people in the Tanzanian village of Majengo. Watch them celebrate!
Israeli solar technology is bringing light and electricity to the far reaches of Africa, helping to improve lives on the impoverished continent of 600 million people.
Kenya announced that all gunmen were killed in s hotel attack that claimed 14 lives, including a Jewish man from the U.S. who survived the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attack in New York.