Israel–Kenya relations

Israel Kenya relations

Israel	Kenya

Israel–Kenya relations are foreign relations between Israel and Kenya. The countries established diplomatic relations in December 1963. Israel has an embassy in Nairobi. Kenya has an embassy in Tel Aviv.

Starting in 1903, under the British Uganda Programme territory in what was then Uganda, but is now part of Kenya, was offered as a Jewish homeland.

In January 1962, Kenyan politician Tom Mboya, Secretary-General of the Kenya African National Union, met with Israeli Histadrut Secretary General Aharon Becker.

In December 1963 Golda Meir, then Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs, met with Kenyan Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta. On that trip Meir and Kenyatta laid the cornerstone for the Israeli Embassy in Nairobi. Israel agreed to train Kenyans in agriculture and medicine in a program called Mashav, in which trainees from Kenya were flown to Israel for study.

In 1973, diplomatic ties were severed following the Yom Kippur War.

Kenyan government official Bruce McKenzie persuaded Kenyan President Jomo Kenyatta to allow Mossad agents to gather information prior to Operation Entebbe in 1976. Also, the Israeli Air Force was granted permission to use an airport in Nairobi. Ugandan President Idi Amin later ordered McKenzie's assassination. Mossad Chief Director Meir Amit had a forest planted in Israel in McKenzie’s name.

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