{"id":42313,"date":"2020-11-27T20:35:13","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T20:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-holds-talks-with-israel-communications-minister\/"},"modified":"2020-12-01T09:39:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T09:39:18","slug":"kagame-holds-talks-with-israel-communications-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-holds-talks-with-israel-communications-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame holds talks with Israel Communications Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yoaz Hendel is in Rwanda since Thursday. He arrived in Kigali onboard Israir aircraft which landed in with 80 tourists from Israel.  <\/p>\n<p>Also present during the discussions were Rwanda\u2019s Minister of ICT and Innovations, Paul Ingabire and Israel ambassador in Rwanda, Ron Adam.<\/p>\n<p>Before holding discussions with President Kagame, Hendel and Ingabire signed Memorandum of Understanding aimed at strengthening collaboration in the areas of ICT and innovation to cement existing relationship.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement will also pave the way for collaboration between business communities.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda and Isra\u00ebl relations date back in 1962 when the country obtained Independence.  <\/p>\n<p>In 2014, Rwanda became the first African country to sign bilateral agreements and later in 2015 opened embassy in Tel Aviv, Isra\u00ebl.  <\/p>\n<p>In January 2019, both countries signed bilateral air service agreement to operate direct flights.  <\/p>\n<p>In the same year, RwandAir started flights to Tel Aviv.  <\/p>\n<p>Israel Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu visited Rwanda in 2016. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-37255 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/kagame_2-2.jpg\" alt=\"President Paul Kagame has today met with Israel Minister of Communication, Yoaz Hendel. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-37254 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/kagame_1-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{President Paul Kagame has today met with Israel Minister of Communication, Yoaz Hendel who is on a visit to Rwanda and held discussions that hinged about strengthening several partnerships between Rwanda and Israel.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-42313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42313"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=42313"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=42313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}