[5] Israeli envoys also met with regional South Sudanese leaders and initiated an aid programme in the spheres of agriculture and infrastructure development.

The Africa Institute also introduced senior members of the South Sudanese leadership to officials in the Israeli Prime Minister's Office and Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

[5] Lignet suggested that South Sudan seeks to foster security cooperation and economic ties with Israel.

South Sudan also has access to oil and other natural resources that may be beneficial to Israel and could offer support in negotiations with Egypt on the allocation of Nile River water.

The agreement outlined plans for cooperation between Israel and South Sudan on desalination, irrigation, water transport, and purification.

The United States, Europe, and the World Bank are planning on funneling very large amounts of money to the development of South Sudan, and the country has a large amount of oil and natural resources of its own that are waiting to be utilised and which will help the country move forward.

He called on Israeli companies to hasten the move to South Sudan "before the Chinese, Europeans and others get in and take these opportunities.

The majority of them arrived in Israel through the Israeli-Egypt border and most live in Tel Aviv, Arad, Eilat[13] and Bnei Brak.

After the Israeli recognition of South Sudan on 10 July 2011, Interior Minister Eli Yishai called on Israel to immediately begin negotiations with South Sudan in order to return the thousands of Sudanese refugees and migrant workers who had crossed into Israel illegally in the past several years.

[19] Following the voluntary deportations of some South Sudanese, at least two students from the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC) and the University of Tel Aviv sought to return in order to finish their studies.

They received visas from the embassy in Ethiopia to return to Israel, but were later deported at Ben Gurion International Airport by the Population, Immigration and Border Authority, whose spokeswoman, Sabine Haddad, said that as they had been "infiltrator[s]" they could be ineligible to return to the country and that as neither PIBA nor the Interior Ministry issued the visa the embassy's actions were erroneous and the Foreign Ministry was responsible.

[1] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet that "I announce here that Israel recognises South Sudan.