Yaïr Lapid, the Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs, is visiting Morocco on Wednesday and Thursday, where he will inaugurate the Israeli diplomatic mission. In a message, he saluted King Mohammed VI for "his courage and vision".
The head of government, Saâdeddine El Othmani , who is also the secretary general of the Party of Justice and Development (PJD), has apparently still not digested the normalization of diplomatic relations between Morocco and Israel. He refuses to meet the Israeli Foreign Minister, Yaïr Lapid, who is currently on an official two-day visit to the kingdom.
The Pegasus affair that has splashed the Israeli company NSO would benefit its competitor Quadream. Last week, representatives of this company would have met with officials of the Moroccan security services to offer their espionage systems.
Yaïr Lapid, the Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs, is expected in Morocco this Wednesday, August 11 for a two-day working visit. On the agenda of this visit, the signing of three cooperation agreements, and the inauguration of the Israeli diplomatic mission in Rabat.
The Israeli Minister of Economy, Orna Barbivai, will travel to Morocco in the coming days for a working visit. She will be at the head of a large delegation of businessmen and industrialists.
Moroccan and Israeli authorities are working to prepare the first official visit to Morocco of Yaïr Lapid , Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs. He is expected in the kingdom on August 11, where he will proceed to the inauguration of the Israeli diplomatic mission.
The National Commission for the Control of Personal Data Protection (CNDP) is seizing the Pegasus affair. Morocco has been accused of having targeted 10,000 numbers, including one belonging to the President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron, using the spyware of the Israeli company NSO.
After the Israeli airlines El Al and Israir, it is now the turn of Royal Air Maroc (RAM) and Air Arabia to launch flights between the kingdom and the Hebrew state. The launch will take place in early October.
Morocco is about to receive two million doses of a new vaccine to complement the list of vaccines helping it advance in the vaccination campaign against Covid-19 . It is the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which will be shipped to Morocco with the help of Israel.
Moroccan international Achraf Hakimi was booed by the public at the Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv on Sunday, August 1, during the Trophée des Champions final between PSG and Lille. The reason: his messages of support for Palestine.
Gérard Araud, retired, former French ambassador to Washington, and former external advisor to the Israeli company NSO, the manufacturer of Pegasus, has expressed doubts about Morocco, one of the countries accused of having targeted 10,000 phone numbers, including French President Emmanuel Macron , using the spyware.
The launch of direct flights between Morocco and Israel is not to the liking of thousands of Moroccan activists. They have launched a campaign on social media to condemn this decision.