Cote d’Ivoire’s president, Alassane Ouattara arrived in Israel late on Saturday evening, his first official visit to the country as leader of the West African nation. Ouattara’s visit comes exactly 50 years after independent Cote d’Ivoire’s first president, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, visited the country. But it also comes just as Israel launches a major crackdown on African nationals, including Ivorians, it says are illegally living in the country. During his four-day trip, Ouattara is due to meet key officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, before attending later this week President Shimon Peres’ annual Presidential Conference, where he…