Tanzania

Officials, friends bid final farewell to former hostage Joshua Loitu Mollel at airport ceremony

The ceremony, which was live-streamed for Mollel’s family and friends in his home country, was widely attended by his colleagues in the Agrostudies program.

Tanzanian ambassador to Israel, Alex Gabriel Kalua attends a farewell ceremony for Joshua Loitu Mollel. November 18, 2025.
Joshua Loitu Mollel, of blessed memory, was an agricultural student from Tanzania who came to Kibbutz Nahal Oz just 19 days before the attack on October 7th.

Who was Joshua Mollel, Tanzanian agricultural student abducted by Hamas? - explainer

A Jewish trip to Tanzania: The fun in exploring diverse cultures

 Relatives hug a released Thai hostage, who was kidnapped during the deadly October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas and held in Gaza, as the hostages arrive in Thailand following their release, at Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport, in Samut Prakan, Thailand

Some non-Israeli hostages beaten to death by Hamas for not understanding Arabic, English - report


19 dead after plane crash-landed in Tanzania - Tanzanian Prime Minister

A Precision Air flight carrying 43 people made a crash landing into Lake Victoria while attempting to reach a nearby airport in Tanzania.

 Rescuers attempt to recover the Precision Air passenger plane that crashed into Lake Victoria in Bukoba, Tanzania, November 6, 2022

The Maasai people conquer cell phones, social media and pizza

The Maasai are known as warriors and semi-nomadic cattle-raisers, with a diet mostly consisting of raw meat and dairy from their cattle.  

 Maasai people in Kenya.

New ambassadors present credentials to Herzog

The Ambassadors of Tanzania, the Republic of Armenia, Austria, Singapore and Kyrgyzstan presented their credentials to President Isaac Herzog.

 Singaporian Ambassador to Israel Chuan Poh Lim presenting credentials to President Isaac Herzog, April 7, 2022.

Exercise can slow your aging process. Here's the proof

We must all move more and lie down less, because even small doses of activity can have a huge impact on the rate at which we age.

 Members of the Hadza, a modern hunter-gatherer people living in northern Tanzania, singing and dancing

How have Israeli-Tanzanian ties changed in the last five years?

DIPLOMATIC AFFAIRS: Departing Ambassador Job Daudi Masima reflects on the highs and lows of the reforged ties between the countries.

 OUTGOING TANZANIAN Ambassador to Israel Job Daudi Masima presents his credentials to then-president Reuven Rivlin upon his arrival in Israel in 2017.

Grapevine December 10, 2021: His eye is on the ball

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 Job Daudi Masima, ambassador of Tanzania, in his favorite role on the golf course.

Tanzania footprints offer clues on origin of human upright walking

Researchers said on Wednesday a thorough new examination of the fossil footprints has shown that they were made not by a bear, as once believed, but by a hominin.

Footprints in the sand

Tanzania's COVID skeptic leader Magufuli dies of heart disease

Magufuli's death, the first of a Tanzanian leader while in office, opens the prospect that the country will gain its first female president.

Tanzania's President elect John Pombe Magufuli salutes members of the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi Party (CCM) at the party's sub-head office on Lumumba road in Dar es Salaam, October 30, 2015.

Access Israel climbs Kilimanjaro

“Climbing a mountain is more about the mind. If you take it easy and relax, all goes easy,” said Sabino (“Sabi”) Kweka.

TO THE summit: (front from left) Paratrek CEO Omer Zur and co-worker Rowee Benbenishty; cliimbers with disabilities (back row, left to right) in Paratreks: Arnold John, Marcela Maranon, Starla Hiliard-Barnes and Arnon Amit