sentences:  Both countries have a number of bilateral agreements in force.Israel established diplomatic relations with Malawi in July 1964, immediately following that country achieving independence from the United Kingdom.Malawi was one of only three Sub-Saharan African states (the others being Lesotho and Swaziland) that continued to maintain full diplomatic relations with Israel in the aftermath of the Yom Kippur War in 1973, and has never severed such ties.