Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, at the opening of today's Cabinet meeting: "I am happy to announce that today the Foreign Minister of Egypt, Samach Sokri, will arrive in Israel. I will meet him this afternoon, and again tonight. The last visit of an Egyptian Foreign Minister to Israel was in 2007, nearly a decade ago.
Today's visit is important from many angles, and it teaches us how much has changed in the relations between Israel and Egypt, mostly thanks to President Al-Sisi's important call to advance the peace proccess, with the Palestinians as well as the western world."