Moroccan army to participate in Israeli military conference next week, Israeli spox says

A senior Israeli army spokesperson revealed that members of Morocco’s Royal Armed Forces are expected to participate in a military conference held in Israel next week.

Avichay Adraee, the Israeli army's spokesperson for Arab media, said in a tweet posted on Thursday that the Israeli army will host an international conference on military renewal and modernisation, and will include the participation of world military leaders- including Arab ones.

The conference, according to Adraee, is scheduled to take place on 12-15 September.

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Possible attendees include army leaders from India, the US, a number of European countries, as well as Morocco, according to a poster Adraee shared on his Twitter account.

The conference will reportedly address "change and innovation mechanisms in the modern battlefield, with a focus on multi-dimensional defence, land access and strikes, as well as military spectrum management," as per his post.

The announcement comes as Tel Aviv and Rabat strengthened their military ties in July during a number of meetings in the kingdom between Israeli military chief Aviv Kochavi and Moroccan defence officials.

Kochavi, met with the Inspector General of the Royal Armed Forces as well as the head of intelligence services and the North African kingdom’s ministry delegate in charge of defence administration.

Kochavi’s visit to Morocco by was the first by an Israeli army chief and was met with protests from pro-Palestinian demonstrators in the kingdom.

Both Morocco and Israel normalised ties with each other in late 2020 through the controversial US-brokered Abraham Accords, which saw other Arab states establish diplomatic relations with Tel Aviv- notably the UAE and Bahrain.

The Arab states’ newly established ties provoked anger in Arab and Muslim-majority states. Palestinian political factions slammed the move as a stab in the back for the Palestinian cause.

Since then, Morocco and Israel have gone on to sign a number of deals, including, science, trade and military.

Israel will also open a permanent embassy in Rabat, following an announcement in August, which will reportedly take a year and a half to construct, according to the Israeli outlet Yedioth Ahronoth.