Chad's interim President Mahamat Idriss Déby announced his country will open an embassy in Israel.
Mossad director David Barnea and Chad's interim President Mahamat Idriss Déby shake hands. Photo: Handout/Israeli GPO
That's largely because Mahamat Idriss Déby took a more careful approach to the normalization process, Israeli officials say. This included bringing the current president's brother and right-hand person, Abdelkarim Idriss Déby, to Jerusalem for a secret visit in 2021, according to three Israeli officials.
In the first public sign that relations were again warming, an Israeli diplomat presented his credentials to Déby last May.was sworn in, Mossad director David Barnea invited Déby to visit Israel and meet with Israeli Prime MinisterIsraeli officials told me that two weeks ago, Barnea traveled secretly to N'Djamena to meet with Déby and his brother to finalize the date of the visit.
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