Morocco eager for tech cooperation with Israel

Abdel Wahid Rakal, director typical of Morocco’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and the Digital Economy stood exterior the Peres Middle for Peace in Jaffa and stared out to sea. He pointed to the horizon and said, “There not so quite significantly absent is Morocco. Now we need to have to tighten the financial strings and join in between us since there are no fences or obstacles and only a thing best attain.”

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Rakal frequented Israel at the head of a delegation of 18 CEOs of some of Morocco’s greatest technologies organizations. The delegation participated in the Axis Tel Aviv 2022 intercontinental international corporate venturing meeting for investment decision and innovation, which was attended by dozens of enterprise funds investors searching for to meet the most promising Israeli tech startups.

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In an distinctive job interview with “Globes,” Rakal explained that his plans and vision had been to set up a partnership concerning Israel and Morocco, which he explained as a gain-win approach for both equally nations around the world with good gains. “We have totally free trade agreement with around 100 nations around the world and a lot more than 2 billion customers all over the world. We will be your bridge to them. In Africa, for instance, we have a community of dozens of banks and insurance plan organizations on the continent, and it is increasing. Africa is the marketplace of the long term and you can see how China and the Gulf states are investing there. A strategic partnership involving Israel and Morocco in this sector would be a specified good results.”

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What can Israel add to you?

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Your sophisticated technological know-how, of course. What notably passions us is the route to innovation and startups. How you do it. The plan, between other issues, is to set up an Israel-Morocco business enterprise forum of businesspeople and youthful superior-tech entrepreneurs that will enrich each individual other. We want to mail our most promising people today to Israel so that they can study. 50 percent of our population is aged concerning 20 and 40. This is a young inhabitants that is hungry for development. And of training course we are fascinated in agriculture and technologies for use of water and food stuff-tech.”

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And what will Morocco provide to the partnership?

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“We have tens of countless numbers of excellent application engineers and superior-tech people hunting to work in very good work opportunities and some of them are leaving us for France. They can fill the shortfall you have of workers in this market. Morocco’s agricultural generate and food stuff business in normal can slice your price ranges. In addition, we have a significant car or truck industry and among the other points manufacture most of the cars for the Romanian company Dacia.”

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Rakhal concludes, “The positive aspects of a partnership between the two countries stem from their pretty similar characteristics which is related by way of Moroccan Jewry, human warmth and the want to progress swiftly and see final results on the desk in the brief term.”

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Printed by Globes, Israel small business news – en.globes.co.il – on April 15, 2022.

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