Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a memorial ceremony for soldiers killed during the 2014 Gaza conflict, at a military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem July 26, 2016. REUTERS/Baz Ratner
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday praised warming relations with Egypt and its president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who ousted an Islamist government seen as hostile to ties between the neighbours.
Egypt was the first of a handful of Arab countries to recognise Israel, in 1979, but the downfall of Hosni Mubarak in 2011 brought to power the government of Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood, straining relations with Israel.
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