Benjamin Netanyahu denies reports of assassination attempt in Kenya

Legal sources said that unlike previous investigations into Mr Netanyahu’s affairs and those of other senior politicians, during which leaks abounded, this case is expected to be very different.

Netanyahu said Kenyatta told him that African leaders would work to restore Israel as an observer to the 54-state African Union.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied a Kuwait newspaper report that his convoy was redirected on its journey from Nairobi’s airport to a city hotel after Kenyan authorities said bombs had been detected along the planned route.

He will make his way back to Israel early Friday morning.

Tuesday morning, motorists found themselves caught in long traffic jams with some key roads closed as part of security arrangements for the Israeli Prime Minister.

Relations between Africa and Israel have been strained over the years.

Valls visited Israel in an effort to advance his country’s plan to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts in the face of opposition from his counterpart Netanyahu.

African states were also opposed to Israel’s close ties to South Africa’s apartheid government. He added that Netanyahu’s visit supported the AJC’s Science Diplomacy Initiative, which facilitates expanded opportunities between Israel’s high tech community and municipalities throughout the world. He has visited Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda while pursuing closer security and other ties with African nations, which cut or limited their relationships with Israel in the 1970s under pressure from Arab countries.

Yoram Elron, the head of the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s Africa division, said an increasing number of African countries “understand that Israel is being singled out in worldwide forums”.

Neguise came to Israel from Ethiopia in 1985 and entered the Knesset past year.

At least 17 people were arrested as hundreds of Ethiopian Jews protested against Israeli police brutality in Tel Aviv on Sunday, according to local media reports.