Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked expressed Israel's first-ever public support of Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara on Tuesday while on a trip to the kingdom for a series of meetings with officials.
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Shaked, who arrived in Morocco on Monday, met with Moroccan counterpart Abdelouafi Laftit and Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita to discuss, among other things, a program to bring workers from the kingdom to Israel, with an emphasis on the construction and nursing sectors.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry stressed that the meeting reflected the two countries' commitment to renewing official ties. Although Morocco has a diplomatic office in Israel, it has not yet opened an official embassy. Israel's official recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara is expected to bring about progress in the matter.
Israel and Morocco normalized ties in December 2020 as part of the US-led Abraham Accords. In return, the Trump administration recognized Morocco's sovereignty over Western Sahara, a region that since 1975 has pitted the kingdom against the Sahrawi separatists of the Polisario Front, supported by Algeria.
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