Israeli foreign minister inaugurates diplomatic office in Morocco

Yair Lapid opens liaison office in capital Rabat as Israel hopes to boost diplomatic and cultural ties with the country.

Israel officially opened its diplomatic office in Morocco on Thursday on the sidelines of a visit by its foreign minister after relations with the North African country were normalised last year. Yair Lapid’s two-day visit is the first to the country by an Israeli minister since 2003. It comes less than a year after Israel and Morocco reached a deal to establish formal ties under the US-brokered “Abraham Accords”. Lapid tweeted photos of him on Thursday formally opening the Israeli liaison office in Rabat, the capital, alongside Morocco’s Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Mohcine Jazouli. He was then to head to Casablanca where he was to visit a synagogue, the Temple Beth-El.