Israel’s innovative diplomatic policy in Africa bears fruit 

‘If you look back 2,000 years ago to the Bible, when we had a famine in Israel we came down to Egypt and Africa to be fed,’ Israeli Ambassador to Nigeria Michael Freeman told Jewish Insider. ‘Now, 2,000 years later, we are in a position to feed Africa and we are paying back our debt.’

When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took his first-ever trip to Africa in 2016, he famously declared, “Israel is coming back to Africa, and Africa is coming back to Israel.”

During that weeklong visit, the first by an Israeli...

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