Israeli and Moroccan organizations signed a number of business and tech agreements on Monday, including on water and energy, as part of the inaugural “Connect to Innovate” conference organized by Start-Up Nation Central (SNC), a non-profit outfit that tracks the Israeli tech ecosystem.
Israel and Morocco had established liaison offices in the 1990s during a short-lived diplomatic opening, but these were closed in the early 2000s during the second Palestinian intifada. Yet relations quietly continued, with some $130 million in bilateral trade in 2021, and similar figures in previous years, according to Moroccan news reports.
