In the corridors of a global diplomacy in full reshuffling, President Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi chose Jerusalem to write a new chapter in relations between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the State of Israel. This Tuesday, September 1, the Congolese president held two high-level meetings in succession with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog during a dense diplomatic day that speaks to the depth of mutual interest that both countries now intend to cultivate.
With Netanyahu, a one-on-one meeting followed by an expanded delegation session covered a deliberately broad spectrum: security and defense, agriculture, infrastructure, energy, and high technology.
This agenda reflects both the immense needs of a DRC in the process of reconstruction and the recognized strengths of Israel, whose technological, agricultural, and security expertise is sought after by many African states.
The Israeli prime minister set the tone from the start of the talks with a statement that leaves no doubt about Tel Aviv’s intentions: to further deepen a friendship that both countries already consider solid.
The meeting with President Herzog is part of the continuity of exchanges that began in November 2025 in Kinshasa proof that this rapprochement is not a one-off initiative but a process built over time, nurtured by regular contacts at the highest level.
The two presidents confirmed their shared desire to give a new dimension to their cooperation, targeting sectors where Israel possesses globally recognized expertise and where the DRC has urgent and well-documented needs: agriculture and food security, water management, health, technology and innovation, training, and investment.
But it is perhaps in the words of President Tshisekedi himself that the most interesting key to understanding this visit lies. The Congolese president insisted on a fundamental distinction: what matters is not the number of agreements signed, but their effective implementation and the concrete results they produce for both peoples. A statement that speaks to the diplomatic maturity of a leader who has learned to distinguish between superficial partnerships and those that truly transform.
Building with Israel a modern, pragmatic, and mutually beneficial partnership: the ambition has been set, the interlocutors identified, the sectors targeted. What remains now is to turn this Jerusalem day into concrete projects on Congolese soil.
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