During the ceremony, Herzog thanked Gatera for Rwanda’s support in enabling Israel to have observer status at the African Union.

He also expressed interest in visiting Rwanda and Africa in general because he is convinced that there is tremendous potential in Africa.

Gatera assured the President that Rwanda will always support Israel noting that his country wants to see more people-to-people relationships.

Rwanda’s ambassador who was appointed to represent the country in Israel in June 2021, presented credentials on Monday 6th December 2021 along with three more envoys from Switzerland, the European Union and Italy.

Israel opened embassy in Rwanda on 1st April 2019. In an exclusive interview with IGIHE at the time, Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel, Amb. Yuval Rotem said that opening the embassy in Kigali highlights the thirst to scale up relations.

Dr. Ron Adams is the current envoy overseeing Israel’s interests in Rwanda.

Rwanda and Israel relations date back in 1962 when the country obtained Independence.

In 2014, Rwanda became the first African country to sign bilateral agreements and later in 2015 opened embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel.

In January 2019, both countries signed bilateral air service agreement to operate direct flights.

In the same year, RwandAir started flights to Tel Aviv.

Since 2012, Rwanda has been sending graduates from agricultural studies to Israel every year for hands-on training on different modern agricultural practices and paid internship.

Rwanda and Israel share common history as countries which experienced tragic history during the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi and Holocaust targeting Jews in the 2nd World War. From these scars, emerged courage and strength to work hard during the resilience process.

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