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Title:Israel and Africa: The Era of Tachlis
Author:Frank, Lawrence P.
Year:1988
Periodical:Journal of Modern African Studies
Volume:26
Issue:1
Pages:151-155
Language:English
Geographic terms:Africa
Israel
Subjects:foreign policy
international relations
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/160985
Abstract:The visit of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to Togo, Liberia, Cameroun, and Côte d'Ivoire in June 1987 confirmed that Israeli-African relations have entered an era of 'tachlis' or unadorned realism. This article briefly reviews three phases in Israeli-African relations: 1) the years of idealism and optimism, when Israel established relations with 33 African States, and became known as a friend and partner in their social and economic developments (1957-1973); a period of deteriorating relations, when 27 of the 33 African States severed relations with Israel because of the advance of the Israeli army to the West bank of the Suez Canal, and Israel's connection with South Africa developed (1973-1982); 3) the development of more pragmatic relations in the 1980s. Notes, ref.
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