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By Lazar Berman - June 4, 2022
PARIS — “Israel is back in Africa” was the unmistakable message of a conference here this week on the Jewish state’s ties with the continent in the years ahead.
Organized by Israel’s embassy in France (which paid for this reporter’s flight) and the American Jewish Committee’s Paris office, the one-day event brought together French and African journalists, diplomats, entrepreneurs and artists to examine the future of Israeli cooperation with African countries and businesses.
“The main message is that Israel has many assets to share with Africa, and it can create a win-win partnership,” AJC Paris director Anne-Sophie Sebban-Bécache told The Times of Israel. “The idea is to focus on those new areas where the relationship can thrive and to get the different actors to invest more in these relations.”
Read More: Times of Israel