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Netanyahu inaugurates Chadian embassy in Israel before flying to Paris

"We are strengthening our friendship and our common interests in pursuing peace, security and prosperity," Netanyahu told the Chadian President.

|ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President of Chad Mahamat Déby at the inauguration of the Chadian embassy in Israel.
Chadian President Mahamat Deby and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem.

Chad to open embassy in Israel on Thursday, Netanyahu says

The Chadian leader is in Israel at the moment and will officiate at the inauguration of the embassy, whose location was not clear.

|ByTOVAH LAZAROFF, YONAH JEREMY BOB
French President Emmanuel Macron attends the state funeral of late Chadian President Idriss Deby in N'Djamena, Chad, April 23, 2021.

Thousands attend funeral of Chad's Deby, Macron pledges French support

Deby, a lynchpin in Western security strategy, was killed on Monday in a battle against a rebel army led by dissident army officers who are not linked to jihadists, according to Chadian authorities.

|ByREUTERS
Chadian President Deby visits the Holocaust History Museum at Yad Vashem

Netanyahu announces official visit to Chad to renew ties

President Déby visited Israel last November, the first-ever such visit of the president of a Muslim-majority African country with whom Israel has had no relations.

|ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN, JERUSALEM POST STAFF

President of Muslim-majority Chad arrives to reestablish ties with Israel

Chad is one of the first majority-Muslim African states to reestablish ties with Jerusalem.

NOVEMBER 25, 2018
Chad President Idriss Deby addresses the media after a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, October 12, 2016