The cabinet on Sunday confirmed Michael Herzog’s appointment as the next ambassador to the US.
Overseas Minister Yair Lapid congratulated Herzog, calling him “the just particular person for the job.”
“I am having a conception forward to working together to defend the actual relationship with our most necessary strategic accomplice, the US,” he tweeted.
High Minister Naftali Bennett in August said Herzog, a security expert and customary peace negotiator who is President Isaac Herzog’s brother, could be the next ambassador to the US.
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Bennett said he selected Herzog “in gentle of his smartly to do, years-long expertise in the security and diplomatic fields and his deep familiarity with the strategic challenges Israel is coping with, essential the Iranian nuclear risk.”
Appointing someone seen as regarded as one of Israel’s top security consultants and likewise someone whose profession has been apolitical, despite coming from a famend Labor Occasion family, is “supposed to send a message” to Washington, a provide in Jerusalem said.
New Israeli Ambassador to the US, Michael Herzog. (credit ranking: Courtesy)
Herzog was aged high minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s particular envoy for the peace task in 2009-2010 and was a negotiator in the secret channel between Israel and the Palestinians in 2013-2014.
Ambassador to the US Gilad Erdan tendered his resignation in June. He is anticipated to stay Israel’s ambassador to the UN.
Furthermore on Sunday, the appointment of Dr. Ronen Hoffman as Israeli ambassador to Canada was authorized.
The aged Yesh Atid MK has a doctorate in govt, overseas affairs, and political psychology.
Lapid congratulated Hoffman, asserting he “has the a really necessary expertise and expert knowledge that can assist him in conducting the job in the appropriate likely formulation. Correct excellent fortune.”
