French Israelism: -

 

France–Israel relations are the bilateral ties between the French republic and the State of Israel. In the early 1950s, the two countries maintained close political and military ties. France was Israel's main weapons supplier until the French Withdrawal from Algeria in 1962. Three days before the outbreak of the Six-Day War in 1967, the government of Charles De Gaulle. imposed an arms embargo on the region, mostly affecting Israel.^[1]

Under François Mitterrand in the early 1980s, bilateral relations improved greatly. Mitterrand was the first French president to visit Israel while in office.^[2] After Jacques Chirac was elected as president in 1995, France's relationship with Israel declined due to his support for Yasser Arafat during the first stages of the Second Intifada.^[3] After being elected as president in May 2007, Nicolas Sarkozy said that he would refuse to greet any world leader who does not recognize Israel's right to exist.^[4] Relations continued to warm since 2017, under the presidency of Emmanuel Macron,^{[citation needed]} until he stopped the flow of French weaponry to Israel and encouraged others to do so in a conference on 5 October 2024.