02/09/2026
🇨🇩🇮🇱 Tshisekedi Strengthens DRC–Israel Strategic Partnership During High-Level Talks in Jerusalem.
As part of his working visit to Jerusalem, the capital of the State of Israel, President Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo held a series of high-level meetings on Tuesday, September 1, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog. The discussions focused on strengthening diplomatic relations and multisectoral cooperation between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the State of Israel.
During his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the discussions covered security, defense, agriculture, infrastructure, energy, and advanced technologies.
“This is a great friendship that we wish to deepen even further,” Prime Minister Netanyahu said at the beginning of their meeting.
During the one-on-one talks, followed by an expanded meeting with their respective delegations, the two leaders welcomed the growing rapprochement between their countries and the strengthening of their strategic partnership.
With President Isaac Herzog, President Félix Tshisekedi continued discussions they had previously held in Kinshasa in November 2025. The two leaders reaffirmed their commitment to building a mutually beneficial partnership between their countries.
“Our discussions confirmed our shared determination to give a new dimension to cooperation between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the State of Israel, particularly in agriculture and food security, water, healthcare, technology and innovation, security, training, and investment,” President Tshisekedi said, in substance.
“Our ambition is to build with Israel a modern, pragmatic, and mutually beneficial partnership, measured not only by the agreements we sign, but by their implementation and the results they deliver for our two peoples,” the Head of State concluded.
Prior to these two meetings, President Tshisekedi visited the Yad Vashem Memorial, a site dedicated to commemorating the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust.