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Waziri Mkuu wa Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu amefanya ziara nchini Brazil, ziara ambayo ni ya kwanza kabisa kwa Waziri Mkuu wa Israel kutembelea nchi hiyo.
Waziri Mkuu Netanyahu amekutana na mwenyeji wake, Rais mteule wa Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro.
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Netanyahu Meets Bolsonaro in Brazil; Israeli Official: We Don't Have Luxury of Being Purists
Brazil's president-elect, who has lashed out at women, the gay community and minorities, says he plans to visit Israel and deepen ties
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left center, is received by Brazil's President-elect Jair Bolsonaro at the military base Fort Copacabana, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, Dec. 28, 2018.
Netanyahu landed in Brazil on Friday to meet with Bolsonaro, and is also expected to hold meetings with the heads of the Jewish community in Brazil.
He is then scheduled to to depart for Brasilia to attend Bolsonaro's swearing-in ceremony and meet other guests, including the leaders of Chile and Honduras, as well as American Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
Source: Haaretz
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Netanyahu leaves campaign for first-ever Israeli PM visit to Brazil
Just a day after new elections were called, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left the campaign trail Thursday evening to spend five days in Brazil, to attend the inauguration of a man who said he wants to upgrade ties with Israel and move the country’s embassy to Jerusalem: Jair Bolsonaro.
Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
This will be the first-ever visit of a sitting Israeli prime minister to Brazil, the world’s fifth most populous country and the world’s eighth largest economy. With an estimated Jewish population of some 120,000, it is also the second-largest Jewish community in Latin America – after Argentina – and the ninth-largest Jewish community in the world.
Netanyahu is being joined on this trip by his wife, Sarah, as well as his son, Yair. According to a Channel 10 report, the Netanyahu family said Yair is paying for his own flight and accommodations.
Netanyahu’s trip – a significant chunk of time at the very beginning of an election campaign – will begin Friday in Rio de Janeiro, where he is scheduled to meet for a 30-minute private meeting with Bolsonaro.
The two leaders will then be joined by the two men Bolsonaro has selected to serve as foreign minister and defense minister: Ernesto Araujo and Fernando Azevedo. At 5 pm he is scheduled to take part in an event at the Orthodox Kehilat Yaakov synagogue in Copacabana. Shabbat begins in Rio at 7:21.
During his trip, he also has scheduled meetings with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, and Chile’s President Sebastian Pinera.
Netanyahu is scheduled to fly home from Brasilia early Wednesday morning after Bolsonaro’s inauguration on Tuesday.
Giora Becher, who served as Israel ambassador to Brazil from 2008 to 2011 when Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was the president – and a harsh and vocal critic of israel – said that now Brazil has a president who “says openly that he is pro-Israel … this is a major change in the foreign policy of Brazil.”
Becher, in an interview with The Israel Project, said that Brazil’s vote in the UN General Assembly earlier this month in favor of Israel on a resolution condemning Hamas was historic.
“For many, many years, Brazil’s official position was always in favor – in international fora – of the Palestinian cause,” he said. “They voted always in favor of all the anti-Israel resolutions in the UN, and this is a major change of course.”
Becher said that even when Brazil was extremely critical of Israel, it made a distinction between political differences and bilateral ties, and that there were always good trade and cultural relations. For example, trade volume in 2017 between the two countries reached more than $1.1 billion.
Under Bolsonaro, Becher said, this too will change for the better: “There is a lot of space for improvement, and we will see an increase in tourism, trade, economics, investment, and of course the big change will be at the UN.”
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Waziri Mkuu Netanyahu amekutana na mwenyeji wake, Rais mteule wa Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro.
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Netanyahu Meets Bolsonaro in Brazil; Israeli Official: We Don't Have Luxury of Being Purists
Brazil's president-elect, who has lashed out at women, the gay community and minorities, says he plans to visit Israel and deepen ties
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left center, is received by Brazil's President-elect Jair Bolsonaro at the military base Fort Copacabana, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, Dec. 28, 2018.
Netanyahu landed in Brazil on Friday to meet with Bolsonaro, and is also expected to hold meetings with the heads of the Jewish community in Brazil.
He is then scheduled to to depart for Brasilia to attend Bolsonaro's swearing-in ceremony and meet other guests, including the leaders of Chile and Honduras, as well as American Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
Source: Haaretz
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Netanyahu leaves campaign for first-ever Israeli PM visit to Brazil
Just a day after new elections were called, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left the campaign trail Thursday evening to spend five days in Brazil, to attend the inauguration of a man who said he wants to upgrade ties with Israel and move the country’s embassy to Jerusalem: Jair Bolsonaro.
Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
This will be the first-ever visit of a sitting Israeli prime minister to Brazil, the world’s fifth most populous country and the world’s eighth largest economy. With an estimated Jewish population of some 120,000, it is also the second-largest Jewish community in Latin America – after Argentina – and the ninth-largest Jewish community in the world.
Netanyahu is being joined on this trip by his wife, Sarah, as well as his son, Yair. According to a Channel 10 report, the Netanyahu family said Yair is paying for his own flight and accommodations.
Netanyahu’s trip – a significant chunk of time at the very beginning of an election campaign – will begin Friday in Rio de Janeiro, where he is scheduled to meet for a 30-minute private meeting with Bolsonaro.
The two leaders will then be joined by the two men Bolsonaro has selected to serve as foreign minister and defense minister: Ernesto Araujo and Fernando Azevedo. At 5 pm he is scheduled to take part in an event at the Orthodox Kehilat Yaakov synagogue in Copacabana. Shabbat begins in Rio at 7:21.
During his trip, he also has scheduled meetings with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, and Chile’s President Sebastian Pinera.
Netanyahu is scheduled to fly home from Brasilia early Wednesday morning after Bolsonaro’s inauguration on Tuesday.
Giora Becher, who served as Israel ambassador to Brazil from 2008 to 2011 when Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was the president – and a harsh and vocal critic of israel – said that now Brazil has a president who “says openly that he is pro-Israel … this is a major change in the foreign policy of Brazil.”
Becher, in an interview with The Israel Project, said that Brazil’s vote in the UN General Assembly earlier this month in favor of Israel on a resolution condemning Hamas was historic.
“For many, many years, Brazil’s official position was always in favor – in international fora – of the Palestinian cause,” he said. “They voted always in favor of all the anti-Israel resolutions in the UN, and this is a major change of course.”
Becher said that even when Brazil was extremely critical of Israel, it made a distinction between political differences and bilateral ties, and that there were always good trade and cultural relations. For example, trade volume in 2017 between the two countries reached more than $1.1 billion.
Under Bolsonaro, Becher said, this too will change for the better: “There is a lot of space for improvement, and we will see an increase in tourism, trade, economics, investment, and of course the big change will be at the UN.”
Source: The Jerusalem Post
