Israel government has lifted an official travel warning for trips to Morocco which has been in effect for the past one decade. The move came following a recommendation by the National Security Council to cancel the official warning, according to reports. In a statement, the council said the decision was made following a top-level assessment that the estimated threat level to Israelis in Morocco has decreased after last year’s normalization deal between the countries.

"It has been decided to cancel the travel warning for Morocco that has been in place for over a decade," Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's office said in a statement. The statement went on to read - "This decision was made in light of an assessment of the situation according to which the estimated threat level in Morocco has declined." However, the office recommended Israelis to "continue showing increased alert" while travelling in Morocco.

The shift came as ties between the two counties have been warming up in the wake of the signing of the US-brokered normalization deal in December 2020.

Israelis had been permitted to visit Morocco even before the countries agreed to reestablish ties last year after two decades, as part of a series of US-backed normalization deals between Israel and Arab countries.

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