Sahara Desert

Herzog congratulates Morocco’s King on UN resolution backing Western Sahara autonomy

The resolution, which the council originally adopted last month, is “a powerful diplomatic achievement and a significant step toward a lasting political solution,” Herzog said. 

President Isaac Herzog hosts the President's Decoration Award Ceremony at the president house in Jerusalem. October 22, 2025.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the government's cabinet formalizes the normalization agreement with Morocco.

Netanyahu hails Moroccan king for UN resolution backing Western Sahara autonomy plan

A car is seen during the visit of UN Western Sahara envoy Staffan de Mistura at the Military Museum in refugee camp in Tindouf, Algeria, January 16, 2022.

UN calls for Western Sahara talks based on Morocco's autonomy plan

Amazigh people celebrate their new year outside the parliament with calls on the government to recognize the day as an official holiday and put more effort into supporting their language in Rabat, Morocco January 13, 2023.

Morocco’s Amazigh revival: From ancient roots to modern identity


Ancient DNA reveals lost human tribe that lived in Green Sahara

DNA from two mummies at Takarkori links them to 15,000-year-old Taforalt hunter-gatherers, challenging the idea of the Green Sahara as a migration corridor.

 Palm trees in green oasis in desert arid landscape between Agdz and Zagora towns in Atlas Mountains, Morocco, North Africa.

French minister in Western Sahara to back Moroccan sovereignty

Morocco has also won backing from Western Sahara's former colonial power Spain, as well as Israel and more than two dozen African and Arab nations.

MOROCCAN SOLDIERS are seen on an earth wall that separates areas controlled by Morocco and the Polisario Front in Western Sahara, in 2016.

Study identifies Amazon and Sahara regions as birthplace of earliest dinosaurs

Remains of earliest dinosaurs may lie undiscovered due to inaccessibility and lack of research efforts.

 Is this the birthplace of the dinosaurs?

How the 'Black Beauty' of Sahara helped scientists determine hot water existed on the Red Planet

The presence of hot liquid water during early magmatic activity on Mars supports the idea that suitable conditions for the emergence of life existed on the Red Planet.

 Mars landscape.

Moroccan King invites Netanyahu to Rabat

President Herzog met with the Congressional Abraham Accords caucus immediately after his address to both houses of Congress.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the government's cabinet formalizes the normalization agreement with Morocco.

Israel recognizes Morocco's sovereignty over Western Sahara

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu relayed the decision to King Mohammed VI in writing, the Royal Office explained. 

 Moroccan and Israeli officials sign memorandums of understanding in Rabat on December 22, 2020.