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November 27, 2018

By Restoring Relations with Chad, Israel Has Gone a Long Way to Restoring Relations with the Rest of Africa

A Muslim-majority country.

On Sunday, President Idriss Déby of Chad arrived in Israel and met with Benjamin Netanyahu; the two later announced the renewal of diplomatic relations between the two countries. While Jerusalem has established ties with numerous African nations in recent years, Chad is the first of these (excepting Egypt, which established ties in Israel in 1978) with a Muslim-majority population. Eldad Beck writes:

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