Yonathan Suher

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on March 23 that he was hopeful that upcoming negotiations between Israel and Turkey "will produce positive results" and enable the renewal of relations between the two countries.

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin has called his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, to express his gratitude regarding the latter's message expressing his condolences for the three Israeli citizens killed in the March 19 suicide bombing attack in Istanbul. 

Rivlin called Erdo?an, who had sent a telegram of condolences, on March 22, according to Turkish presidential sources. 

Israel hailed the sincere and very helpful cooperation it has received from Turkish officials in the immediate aftermath of deadly Istanbul attack in which its three citizens have been killed and envisaged this good as a way to help talks for the normalization of relations strained after the Mavi Marmara crisis of 2010. 

Three Israeli citizens who were injured in the March 19 suicide bomb attack in Istanbul were sent to Israel for treatment via private plane early March 20.

Five people were killed and 39 others were injured in a suicide bomb attack on March 19 in central Istanbul, on the busy ?stiklal Avenue in Taksim.