Israeli Occupation's top diplomat landed in Morocco Wednesday for the first visit by a senior official from the Jewish state since the two sides agreed to normalise ties last year.

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid is expected to meet Wednesday with his Moroccan counterpart, Nasser Bourita, and open a diplomatic representation on Thursday in the capital Rabat.

"We have landed in Morocco. Proud to represent the [Israeli Occupation] during this historic visit," Lapid wrote on Twitter as his flight operated by the [Israeli Occupation] national airline El Al arrived.
The Israeli Occupation and Morocco normalized ties last year after then US president Donald Trump recognised Morocco's contested sovereignty in Western Sahara.

Morocco was the fourth Arab state to establish ties with the Israeli Occupation last year after the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan.
The move infuriated the Palestinians as it shattered the longstanding Arab consensus that there should be no normalization until the Israeli Occupation agrees to a comprehensive and lasting peace.

The Israeli Occupation delegation is expected to visit the royal mausoleum where kings Hassan II and Mohammed V are buried, before the bilateral meeting between Lapid and Bourita.

Lapid is also expected to visit the Beth-El synagogue in Casablanca on his two-day visit, the Israeli Occupation foreign ministry said.

The North African country hosts the Arab world's largest Jewish community of some 3,000 people.

They are the remnant of a once much larger community. Some 700,000 Jews of Moroccan descent now live in the Israel Occupation.

Morocco and the Israeli Occupation maintained liaison offices in the 1990s, before closing them during the second Palestinian intifada, or uprising, that raged from 2000 to 2005.

Lapid's visit to Rabat follows a June trip to the United Arab Emirates, where he inaugurated the new Israeli Occupation embassy in Abu Dhabi.

It comes just days before the Israeli Occupation is due to require all travellers returning from Morocco to quarantine following a review of the risks of COVID-19 infection.