Rabat: Foreign Minister Morocco and Israel signed three agreements on Wednesday during the first visit by the top officials from the Jewish countries since the normalized last year.
Nasser Bourita and his colleague Israel Yair Lapid signed an agreement on political consultation, aviation and culture.
Lapid tells reporters the agreement will “bring innovation and opportunities for our countries for the benefit of our children – and their children – for years to come”.
Israel and Morocco attacked last year’s agreement after the US President Donald Trump acknowledged Moroccan sovereignty which was contested in West Sahara.
“Today, we restore peace, restore friendship,” said Lapid.
Morocco is the fourth Arab country to build relationships with Israel last year after the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan.
The move was confusing Palestine, because destroying the Arabic consensus that had long happened that there should be no normalization until Israel approved a comprehensive and lasting peace.
Bourita said that during his conversation with Lapid, the situation in Israel and the Palestinian territories were raised.
“The King Mohammed VI insisted on breaking the deadlock now and continuing negotiations, as the only way to achieve a solution based on two countries who live side by side on the 1967 border,” Bourita said.
Monarch has convinced Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas after the normalization of the bond that will continue to support the causes of Palestine.
“Urge that steps are taken today to restore trust and maintain calm, to open political horizons to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” Bourita said.
Lapid said he preferred to focus on normalizing the relationship between Israel and Arab countries.
“Something is happening in this region,” he said.
On Thursday, Lapid will officially open Israeli diplomatic representations in the capital of Rabat.
The American Embassy in Rabat is called Lapid Visit “a major step forward”, in a message on Twitter.
“Strengthening this relationship will create new opportunities for peace and prosperity to develop in the region,” added the embassy.
It enrolled “real benefits” created including “direct commercial flights, economic cooperation, and opening of the connecting office”.
Before the Bourita-Lapid meeting, the Israeli delegation visited the Kingdom Mausoleum, where Kings Hassan II and Mohammed V were buried.
Lapid is also expected to visit the Beth-El synagogue in Casablanca on a two-day visit, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said.
“Proud to represent Israel during this historic visit,” wrote lapid on Twitter, right after the flight was operated by the Israeli national airline El Al Landed.
His visit came a little more than two weeks after the flight was immediately launched between Israel and Morocco.
Since then, the first Israeli tourist has flooded Morocco Marrakech tourism magnets, and to Casablanca.
Before the pandemic, between 50,000 and 70,000 Israeli tourists – especially from Morocco – have visited every year, even with transit through third countries.
The North African country hosts the largest Jewish community in the Arab world of around 3,000 people.
They are the rest of the community that has been much larger.
About 700,000 Jews from Morocco descent now live in Israel.
Morocco and Israel retained the liaison office in the 1990s, before closing them during the second Palestinian intifada, or rebellion, which raged from 2000 to 2005.
Lapid’s visit to Rabat followed a June trip to the United Arab Emirates, where he inaugurated the new Israeli Embassy in Abu Dhabi.
It came just a few days before Israel would ask all tourists back from Morocco to quarantine the review of the risk of Covid-19 infection.
Last December Israel and Morocco signed an agreement on water, aviation and finance, when the delegation of Israeli officials arrived on the first direct flight between Rabat and Tel Aviv.
And in July, the two countries signed a cyber defense cooperation agreement in rebates.
Lapid’s journey came after the rights group last month accused Morocco after using the Pegasus Israeli spyware program.
Rabat strongly denied the report and said demanding rights groups.
Morocco, Israel signed an agreement to mark a historic visit
