Quds city, Sept 5, SPA -- Israel is planning on sending a high-level delegation to Tunisia in November and has sent messages to Indonesia expressing interest in forming ties with the largest Muslim country in the world, an Israeli Foreign Ministry official said Monday. Trying to ride the wave created by its historic withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and four West Bank settlements, Israel is courting the Muslim world, openly calling on these countries to form ties _ even low-level ones _ with Israel. Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom's attendance in November at a U.N. conference in Tunisia is a step toward renewing ties with the North African country, which cut off its low-level relations with Israel when fighting with the Palestinians erupted in September 2000, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev. Israel has also recently sent messages to Indonesia expressing a desire to form ties, Regev was quoted as saying by The Associated Press.
