Their statement ended media speculation on where and when Prigozhin would be laid to rest, with his funeral shrouded in secrecy. Russian media cited unidentified sources as saying Prigozhin was laid to rest Tuesday without any publicity, per his family's wishes. Just before the crash, Prigozhin had reportedly returned from a trip to Africa, where he sought to expand Wagner Group’s activities. The crash came exactly two months after the brutal and profane mercenary boss launched a rebellion against the Russian military leadership. Putin said Wagner fighters could sign a contract with the Russian military, move to Belarus or retire from service.

Former prime minister Joseph Muscat returned to the parliamentary public accounts committee in his fourth appearance as a witness on the NAO report dealing with the procurement of the Electrogas gas plant. Caruana Galizia public inquiry | Edward Scicluna admits Panama Papers was ‘elephant in the room’With some questions based on conclusions emanating from the Caruana Galizia assassination public inquiry, Muscat at one point expressed his disagreement with the conclusions of the three-judge panel. While the inquiry’s conclusions remarked at the “utter lack of involvement” of then finance minister Edward Scicluna from the negotiations on the Delimara gas plant with Electrogas, Muscat said this was “totally incorrect”. “The public inquiry is not understanding the remit of the ministry and the extent of its involvement. Former prime minister Joseph Muscat returns to the parliamentary public accounts committee in his fourth appearance as a witness on the NAO report dealing with the procurement of the Electrogas gas plant.

The reports confirmed the belief of analysts that it’s unlikely either Mangoush or Cohen would have held the unprecedented meeting without informing their respective premiers. However, two senior Libyan government officials told The Associated Press the prime minister knew about the talks between his foreign minister and the Israeli chief diplomat. The second official said the Mangoush-Cohen meeting lasted for about two hours and Mangoush briefed the prime minister directly after her return to Tripoli. They “have used Libya’s first female foreign minister as the fall person for decisions they all partook in,” Gomati said. While Israel and Libya have never had ties, there have long been reported contacts between Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam and Israeli officials.

The exposure of the first-ever known encounter between Israeli and Libyan foreign ministers ignited angry street protests in several Libyan cities and sent Libyan Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush fleeing to Turkey for fear of her safety. Netanyahu sent the directive Tuesday to all government ministries, requesting they receive approval from his office before conducting any covert political talks. A Netanyahu aide, Topaz Luk, said Netanyahu issued the order in response to fallout from the Libya scandal. It was not known if Netanyahu knew about Foreign Minister Eli Cohen's meeting with Mangoush ahead of time. Israeli media said the acting United States ambassador to Israel, Stephanie Hallett, had expressed American displeasure with the Israeli announcement in a meeting with Cohen on Monday.

(JTA) — Libyan Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush has been fired and has fled to Turkey following a meeting last week with Israel’s foreign minister, Eli Cohen. Libya and Israel do not have diplomatic relations, and when he first announced the meeting on Sunday, Cohen hailed it as another breakthrough in Israel’s growing ties with its neighbors. The Israel-Libya meeting, which took place in Rome last week, seemed to fall in the same vein. The New York Times quoted unnamed Libyan foreign ministry officials saying Mangoush had flown to Turkey because of safety concerns. Yair Lapid, the leader of Israel’s parliamentary opposition who preceded Cohen as foreign minister, wrote on social media that Cohen’s conduct was “amateurish, irresponsible and a serious error of judgment.”

A botched push for improved Libya-Israeli relations will chill their covert ties while potentially fueling instability in Libya as opposition groups use the scandal to undermine the Tripoli-based government. On Aug. 28, Libya's internationally recognized Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah fired Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush for meeting with Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen in Italy the preceding week. The firing took place after Israel's Foreign Ministry published a statement confirming the meeting on Aug. 27, causing an uproar in Libya and sparking protests in cities including Tripoli, Misrata and Zintan. Libya's House of Representatives, which supports Libya's Benghazi-based rival governing faction, also slammed the move, while at least one Islamist politician in Tripoli called for the dismissal of Dbeibah's government. According to Israeli media, the meeting between Mangoush and Cohen focused on areas of cooperation for the preservation of Jewish heritage sites in Libya, Israeli aid for Libyan agriculture, water ...

“It was in the 2000s and early 2010s, when Colonel Gaddafi was still in power,” said Ben Attiya, 62, head of the city’s Libyan Jewish congregation, called Or Shalom. They have hurt us greatly, but we Libyan Jews have become a success story in Israel,” said Netanya’s Daniel Mimun, 77, who fled Libya for Italy in 1967 with his family before later moving to Israel. To visit, but not to returnDespite the bad memories, some Libyan Jews are interested in ties with Tripoli, especially as it may allow the community to preserve its heritage sites. There is also a Jewish-Arabic dialect spoken by Libyan Jews, which is used in a magazine put out by the Or Shalom community. ‘We cannot forget their cruelty’Other Libyan Jews reacted with less enthusiasm to the news of high-level Israeli-Libyan contacts, or with outright rejection.

When the Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen ran to tell everyone under the sun about his meeting with his Libyan counterpart Najla Mangoush, he probably hadn’t imagined that it would result in Mangoush being suspended and having to flee her country to Turkey. It appears that for the moment, despite Cohen’s celebratory announcement, Libya is still far from normalizing its relations with Israel.

Cohen’s X post followed a statement earlier in the day from the Foreign Ministry denying that it was the source of the leak. The Foreign Ministry on Sunday revealed the meeting between Cohen and Mangoush. Opposition leader Yair Lapid, Israel’s previous prime minister and foreign minister, had harsh words on Monday for Cohen’s handling of the diplomatic exchange. The incident with the Libyan foreign minister is amateurish, irresponsible and a serious failure of judgment. In his X post, Cohen defended the work of the Foreign Ministry since he took over from Lapid at the end of last year.

ArrowRight Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen announced Sunday that he had met secretly in Italy last week with Najla el-Mangoush, foreign minister for Libya’s Tripoli-based government, touting “the great potential for relations” between the two countries. For Israel, the meeting with Libya’s top diplomat represented the latest milestone in its effort, facilitated by the United States, to establish diplomatic ties with once-hostile Middle Eastern countries. Libya's prime minister fired the country's foreign minister on Aug. 28, in an effort to contain growing anger after she met with her Israeli counterpart. In the past, normalization agreements between Israel and Arab countries were preceded by years of unofficial, underground connections. “If the U.S. has really been pushing that government toward normalization, this is clearly a strategic mistake.”Hendrix reported from Jerusalem.

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Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen wanted the meeting to be publicized straight away, but the Libyans asked for more time. The Libyans rejected it and Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush was fired, bringing an end, for the moment, to the diplomatic channel with Israel. Why did the Israeli Foreign Ministry issue the statement in the first place? “A journalist had info on the meeting and was about to publish it, so we had no choice,” Israeli officials told JNS. Yesterday, Stephanie Hallett, the U.S. chargé d’affaires in Israel, met with Foreign Minister Cohen and criticized Israel’s conduct.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seized control of Israel’s back-channel diplomacy after the incident with Tripoli in which Foreign Minister Eli Cohen prematurely published information about a secret meeting with his Libyan counterpart. On Tuesday, Netanyahu declared that all secret diplomatic meetings by any government ministry must be approved by his office in advance. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Eli Cohen assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on March 13, 2023. Mangoush who was fired for meeting Cohen, fled to Turkey on Monday and has reportedly continued on from there to London. He continued, adding that what is “happening today in the Foreign Ministry is very sad.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu drastically curtailed the ability of government ministers to conduct diplomatic business independently, days after a blunder by Israel’s Foreign Minister caused a backlash in Libya. The announcement of the meeting – the first of its kind between foreign ministers from the two countries – caused riots in Libya and stern rejections from senior Libyan officials. Soon after Mr Cohen’s announcement, Libya’s Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, who heads the Government of National Unity, fired Ms Mangoush. Violent protests in Libya followed Mr Cohen's statement, with protesters torching Israeli flags, tyres and even Mr Dbeibeh’s home. Ms Mangoush represented the UN-recognised government based in Tripoli and was the first woman to take on the position of Foreign Minister.