Energy Minister Yitzhak Modai returned home from a three-day official visit to Egypt and expressed hopes that the current “cold peace relations” between Egypt and Israel would “warm up shortly.” Modai was the first Israeli Cabinet minister to visit Egypt while serving in the Cabinet since the cooling off of relations between the two countries with the start of the war in Lebanon.
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