Ambassador Revel said that "the relationship between Israel and Cyprus is a very special relationship, a very close relationship. First of all we are two democracies in this region and we share a lot of strategic interests, security interests, but also economic interests for example in the fields of energy, tourism, technological innovation, and above all we are really two friendly nations, very good friends, very close friends."

He added that "there is a special bond between Israeli people and the Cypriot people which goes back to the days when the state of Israel was created 70 years ago. So I am looking very much to taking the very close relationship even to a higher level, solidifying the partnership, the strategic partnership, the economic partnership and also strengthening even more the friendship between our peoples."

The Ambassador stressed that "we live in a region which unfortunately knows a lot of instability and also extremist movements, terrorism movements, and it is only by our close cooperation that Israel and Cyprus, also together with other like-minded countries in the region, we can ensure for our own citizens a better future, a more secure future, a more stable future, a more prosperous future. This is what we want to achieve."

We still remember, he noted, "when Cypriot firemen came to help us to extinguish the fires in Israel and also our planes were flying together with fire extinguishing planes in Cyprus to fight the fires on the Troodos mountains. So this is one field. But we have so many fields also in terms of economic cooperation, in terms of people to people cooperation, in the trilateral framework. So we are looking to set a date very quickly, so we can continue this very important cooperation," he added.