An Israeli minister has urged maintaining friendly relations with Egypt following the ouster of former President Mohamed Morsi by the Egyptian military.\n<\/p>\n
“It is really important for Israel to keep Egypt as its friend and to maintain a peaceful border,” Israeli Internal Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich said on Saturday.\n<\/p>\n
He also said that Tel Aviv\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s intelligence sources had good cooperation with Egypt under Morsi.\n<\/p>\n
Earlier, former Israeli minister of military affairs, Gabi Ashkenazi, downplayed the developments in Egypt, saying Morsi’s ouster did not pose any immediate danger to Tel Aviv.\n<\/p>\n
“I think the Egyptian army is too busy [with domestic issues] to deal with anything that is outside of Egypt, so I don’t think there’s any danger at the moment,” he said.\n<\/p>\n
He also said the Morsi government was “reasonable” in its ties with Tel Aviv as it did not renege on the Camp David Accords and launched a crackdown on underground supply tunnels between the Sinai Peninsula and the blockaded Gaza Strip.\n<\/p>\n
On July 3, the Egyptian Army ousted Morsi and suspended the country’s constitution.\n<\/p>\n
The army announced new parliamentary elections and declared the head of Supreme Constitutional Court, Adly Mansour, as the interim president of Egypt.\n<\/p>\n
Israel, which signed a peace accord with Egypt in 1979, has refused to comment on the crisis in North African country.\n<\/p>\n
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