Raphael Ahren

@khalidalkhalifa @TimesofIsrael Thank you so much, Sheikh Khalid! I will never forget my first time in Manama!

@RaphaelAhren @TimesofIsrael My first interview with an Israeli newspaper was with you Rafi , wishing you the best of luck and for sure we will miss you .

1/3 Some personal news: Today is my last day at @TimesofIsrael. During 9 fascinating years as TOI's diplomatic correspondent I've covered a bunch of elections, wars and peace deals, and travelled the world -- from Bogota to Manama, from DC to Baku -- and now it's time to move on

3/3 I'm excited to start tomorrow as press and information officer for @EUinIsrael. As someone who grew up in Europe and today lives in Jerusalem, I place great importance in EU-Israel relations and look forward to helping further strengthen them. Freude! youtube.com/watch?v=oWGZdY…

2/3 I’d like to thank everyone at TOI, first and foremost of course @davidhorovitz, who is not only the hardest-working person I know, but also an excellent journalist with an unparalleled dedication to truth and accuracy, a true mensch, and a friend

In intractable struggles over West Sahara and West Bank, some see thorny parallels timesofisrael.com/in-intractable…

@RaphaelAhren Not the first ever non-stop flight from Tel Aviv to Rabat: that title belongs to the flight which brought then-PM Yitzhak Rabin and then-FM Shimon Peres (with an expansive top level delegation) to the Casablanca MENA Economic summit on Nov. 30, 1994 ecf.org.il/issues/issue/2…

BREAKING: The first official Israeli delegation is headed to #Morocco next week A joint US-Israeli delegation headed by Jared Kushner & Ben-Shabbat is set to visit the kingdom Tuesday on first ever nonstop flight from Tel Aviv to Rabat, senior US administration official tells me

Born in the UAE: After years undercover, Israeli diplomats who built Gulf ties inch out of the shadows, including the mom of a baby boy who may be the first and only Israeli citizen born in the Emirates timesofisrael.com/after-years-un… via @timesofisrael

Israel's @PresidentRuvi Rivlin speaks to Bahrain's King Hamad: "The developments in our relations could not have happened without the brave and historic decision of His Majesty King Hamed to establish a warm peace with Israel.”

Dieses Foto wurde 1932 in Kiel von Rachel Posner, Frau eines Rabbiners, aufgenommen. Auf die Rückseite des Fotos schrieb sie: "Chanukkah 5692 (1932) 'Juda verrecke' Die Fahne spricht – 'Juda lebt ewig' Erwidert das Licht." Möge das Licht immer stärker sein als die Dunkelheit!

++ cancelled ++ Due to current developments in #Iran @GermanyinIran and other EU Member States will not participate in the Ambassadors’ Panel on Economic Diplomacy of the Europe-Iran Business Forum scheduled to take place on Monday in Tehran. europeiranbusinessforum.com/day-1/ambassad…

Morocco always loved its Jewish community, so much so that tens of thousands of Jews left the country in the 1950s because the love was just too much for them to bear

Pourquoi l’accord conclu par #Israël avec le #Maroc résonne autant en nous fr.timesofisrael.com/pourquoi-lacco… via @timesofisrael

🇪🇺 High Representative @JosepBorrellF welcomes the important steps in the normalization of relations between 🇮🇱 and 🇲🇦 👇👇

Fascinating read:

A rich Jewish past, and present: Why #Israel’s normalization deal with #Morocco is so resonant timesofisrael.com/a-rich-jewish-… via @timesofisrael

Israel's PM @netanyahu on establishing diplomatic relations with #Morocco: "This will be a very warm peace. On this Hannukah, the light the peace has never shone brighter than today in the Middle East."

Mimouna on Hannuka: move over latkes and donuts, here come the mufletot

In call with Trump, King Mohammed VI of Morocco "agreed to resume diplomatic relations between Morocco and Israel and expand economic and cultural cooperation to advance regional stability"