Where Innovation Meets ScaleIsrael has earned its reputation as a global innovation hub, in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, water management, irrigation, agricultural science, and advanced engineering. The Red Sea DimensionThere is also a quieter strategic layer to this visit. Ethiopia’s pursuit of peaceful and mutually beneficial access to the Red Sea is not framed as expansionism but as economic realism. The southern Red Sea corridor has grown increasingly complex in recent years, marked by overlapping interests and heightened security concerns. For Israel, itself a Red Sea actor, stability in the Horn of Africa is not an abstract calculation.

Source: Ethiopian News February 25, 2026 11:51 UTC