Members‘We finally saw the real Israel’

That was the reaction of one of nine journalists from Arab countries who were recently hosted by the Israel Foreign Ministry.

The delegation included five journalists from Morocco, and one each from Yemen, Lebanon, Syria and Kurdistan. The initiative was the brainchild of Hassan Kaabiya, the deputy spokesman for Arab Media at the Foreign Ministry, who last year also brought a delegation of journalists from North Africa to the Jewish state.

Kaabiya said that the visit was intended to acquaint the members of the delegation with the real Israel and its efforts toward coexistence. While here, the visiting journalists...