(Jerusalem Post) Herb Keinon - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that his four-country trip to East Africa is opening doors to other African states as well. During his current Africa visit he held a phone conversation with the Muslim head of an African state with which Israel does not have diplomatic relations, and they agreed to meet. While reports spoke of contacts with Somalia's president, Netanyahu said the leader with whom he spoke was not from Somalia. The Jerusalem Post has learned that delegations from Mali and Chad visited Israel recently. On Thursday Netanyahu, the first prime minister to ever visit Ethiopia, also addressed both houses of parliament where he was greeted warmly. He began by sending greetings from Jerusalem, where he said Solomon and the Ethiopian Queen of Sheba met some 3,000 years ago. "The struggle for freedom unites our two nations," he said. "You resisted foreign rule and live as a free people in your ancestral homeland, and we too live as a free and independent people in our ancestral homeland."
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