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Gideon Behar, the ambassador of Israel to The Gambia, has disclosed that the government of Israel has more projects and development plans to offer to the Gambia. He explained that these projects would be mainly in agriculture, health and the education sectors, by providing scholarship for Gambians to study in Israel, among others. Ambassador Behar made these revelations during a short interview with this reporter from The Point Newspaper.
The Israeli ambassador, who is residing in Dakar, Senegal, said he was accredited as Ambassador to the Gambia over three years ago and that he is also overseeing Senegal, Sierra Leone, Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde.
The Gambia and Israel have a long standing programme of training for Gambians both in Israel and Senegal, he said. During the last two years, Israeli experts came to share their knowledge in the field of education with 40 experts and teachers in the Gambia and this year they want to repeat it, noting that the Israeli experts in agriculture have also been training Gambians here he added.
Ambassador Gideon Behar disclosed that his country is currently having about 150 training courses regularly done in Israel with about 2000 participants from all over the world attending it and the Gambia is no exception. According to him the MASHAV project, an international aid agency in Israel also has half of its participants from Africa and they specialize in agriculture, health, education, women empowerment, business and other areas of cooperation between Israel and African countries.
Ambassador Behar then expressed hope that their cooperation with University of the Gambia (UTG) will be extended to areas such as agriculture and education. He further disclosed that Israeli professors are expected to come and lecture at the UTG. He added that they would soon collaborate with the Gambia College, the UTG’s school of Agriculture and National Agricultural Research Institute (NARI) in the area of agriculture, noting that these projects would strengthen the existing bilateral relationship between the Gambia and Israel. He expressed hope that the TIPA projects would be implemented in the Gambia soon, saying that they have successfully implemented it in Senegal with the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar.
The Israeli ambassador observed that the Gambia has developed rapidly in the past three years since he was accredited as ambassador to the country. He therefore thanked the Gambian people for the warm welcome accorded to him during his visit to this west African State.
Gideon Behar, the ambassador of Israel to The Gambia, has disclosed that the government of Israel has more projects and development plans to offer to the Gambia. He explained that these projects would be mainly in agriculture, health and the education sectors, by providing scholarship for Gambians to study in Israel, among others. Ambassador Behar made these revelations during a short interview with this reporter from The Point Newspaper.
The Israeli ambassador, who is residing in Dakar, Senegal, said he was accredited as Ambassador to the Gambia over three years ago and that he is also overseeing Senegal, Sierra Leone, Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde.
The Gambia and Israel have a long standing programme of training for Gambians both in Israel and Senegal, he said. During the last two years, Israeli experts came to share their knowledge in the field of education with 40 experts and teachers in the Gambia and this year they want to repeat it, noting that the Israeli experts in agriculture have also been training Gambians here he added.
Ambassador Gideon Behar disclosed that his country is currently having about 150 training courses regularly done in Israel with about 2000 participants from all over the world attending it and the Gambia is no exception. According to him the MASHAV project, an international aid agency in Israel also has half of its participants from Africa and they specialize in agriculture, health, education, women empowerment, business and other areas of cooperation between Israel and African countries.
Ambassador Behar then expressed hope that their cooperation with University of the Gambia (UTG) will be extended to areas such as agriculture and education. He further disclosed that Israeli professors are expected to come and lecture at the UTG. He added that they would soon collaborate with the Gambia College, the UTG’s school of Agriculture and National Agricultural Research Institute (NARI) in the area of agriculture, noting that these projects would strengthen the existing bilateral relationship between the Gambia and Israel. He expressed hope that the TIPA projects would be implemented in the Gambia soon, saying that they have successfully implemented it in Senegal with the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar.
The Israeli ambassador observed that the Gambia has developed rapidly in the past three years since he was accredited as ambassador to the country. He therefore thanked the Gambian people for the warm welcome accorded to him during his visit to this west African State.
