Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, today (Wednesday, 1 February 2023), at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, met with the President of the Republic of Chad, Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno.
Tomorrow morning they will dedicate Chad’s Embassy in Israel. In January 2019, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the previous President of Chad, Idriss Deby, agreed on the resumption of diplomatic relations between the two countries at a ceremony in Ndjamena, the capital of Chad.
In 1972 Chad announced as second African state to cancel the diplomatic relationship with Israel. But a lot of informell relations stayed alive. Finally, Chad announced that it will establish an embassy in Ramat Gan or Tel Aviv. It is a move that is defined by both political echelons as a significant improvement of the bilateral relations.
Chad government relies heavily on the intel and weapons of Israel to defend the northern territories against islamistic rebels. Chad is currently one of the leading partners in a West African coalition in the fight against Boko Haram and other Islamist militants fueled by the Mullah regime in Teheran.
(Infomemes from Wikipedia: About the topographic map: Chad is divided into three distinct zones, the Sudanian Savanna in the south, the Sahara Desert in the north, and the Sahelian belt in the center.)
Attending from the Israeli side are Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, Mossad Director David Barnea, the Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff Tzachi Braverman, National Security Council Director Tzachi Hanegbi, the Prime Minister’s Military Secretary Maj.-Gen. Avi Gil and Israel’s non-resident Ambassador to Chad Ben Bourgel.
Attending for Chad are Foreign Minister Mahamat Saleh Annadif, Defense Minister Daoud Yaya Brahim, Head of the Presidential Cabinet Idriss Youssouf Boy and Director of the Secret Services Gen. Ahmed Kogri.
The relations, especially the economic relations, has a lot of space to develop as the chart below from the Israel Export Institute shows. Chad is ranked as the seventh poorest state of the world:
