Israeli Air Force Commander arrives to Morocco for official visit with senior military delegation

On Feb 23, 2023

Tomer Bar, the general commander of the Israeli Air Force, met Abed Alaoui Bouhamid, the inspector of the Royal Air Force, while in Morocco on an official trip with a senior military delegation.

Morocco and Israel came to an agreement to build F16 and F5 fighters, of which the Royal Air Force has a fleet, by supplying them with advance technology and enhancing their simulation and flight abilities.

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The Israeli general visited a number of military air bases in order to improve cooperation between the two armies. He was accompanied by several Moroccan Royal Air Force officials. The Israeli Air Force’s chief of training, a first lieutenant colonel, and other commanders accompanied Bar.

This trip follows the first annual steering committee of the defense establishment working with Morocco in Rabat, where the two nations decided to strengthen their military ties.

Israel leads the Middle East in technological warfare thanks to its extensive and varied military fleet of jet fighters and its numerous air, land, and sea defense systems. Rabat will be able to strengthen its domestic capabilities and carry away Israeli know-how in order to meet the local, regional, and global challenges. inside the Kingdom.

The Kingdom of Morocco and Israel cooperate in the areas of cybersecurity and intelligence, according to the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces, who also “agreed to further strengthen and expand cooperation to other areas, including intelligence, air defense, and electronic warfare.”

As Rabat is close to acquiring the most recent generation of “Bluebird” unmanned aircraft, on which the Israeli Air Force depends, the Kingdom is betting on gaining from Israeli expertise in the security and defense sectors.

The tripartite agreement signed in late December of last year reflects understandings between Tel Aviv, Rabat, and Washington in order to create a common “environment” that works to establish security in the Sahel region and North Africa, and the United States will work to play a crucial role in bringing the Israeli industry closer to Rabat.

General Belkhair Farouk, Inspector General of the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces, was hosted by Israel in Tel Aviv in September 2022 so that he could attend a global military conference.

In light of the unstable international environment, Morocco is preparing to enter the era of military industries in an effort to achieve self-sufficiency and decrease its import base of defensive weapons, which makes it an ambitious leap with multiple goals in light of the strategic ties that unite it with the industrial actors.