The State of Israel, as the country is officially known is a tiny country, with only six million inhabitants. It is surrounded by 22 Arab countries, with 300 million people. Their combined land area is greater than that of all of Europe. Israel covers an area of 20,330 sq km; which is less that 10% of the size of my beloved country Ghana.
~SNIP
Some of the major areas of cooperation between Ghana and Israel countries during this period included shipping, construction, agriculture, labour issues, manpower training, science and medicine, security matters and culture.
Israel, with help from India, supervised the establishment of the Ghanaian Air Force in April 1959. A small Israeli team also trained aircraft maintenance personnel and radio technicians at the Accra-based Air Force Training School. Ghanaian pilots also received some training at aviation schools in Israel. Israel helped Ghana set up its Black Star Line company and trained its police force, doctors, dentists and veterinarians. In the area of sanitation the Israelis started a central sewage system in Accra.
The good relationship between Ghana and Israel notwithstanding it is on record that the leaders of the two countries had different views as to the direction Ghana should take to develop. Golda Meier, for example, thought Nkrumah was turning himself into a demigod by encouraging the sculpturing of his statues and minting coins bearing his effigy.
The special relations between Ghana and Israel received its first major jolt long before the OAU boycott in 1973. During the January 1961 Non-Aligned Conference in Casablanca Nkrumah signed a resolution promoted by Nasser "singling out Israel as the pillar of imperialism in Africa." That notwithstanding Israel continued its development aid to Ghana essentially until 1973 - when, in the wake of the Yom Kippur War, Accra and the rest of black Africa succumbing to Arab pressure and desires broke ties with Israel.