In first, Israel names woman as ambassador to Egypt
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Oron, a veteran diplomat, previously served as Israel's charges d'affaires in Ankara.
By Herb Keinon
The Foreign Ministry’s Appointments Committee named Amira Oron as
Israel’s next ambassador to Egypt, which will make her Jerusalem’s first
female ambassador to Cairo since diplomatic ties were established in
1980.
Oron, a veteran diplomat, previously served as Israel’s chargé
d’affaires in Ankara. Turkey expelled Israel’s ambassador in 2010
following the Mavi Marmara incident, and Oron became the highest ranking
Israeli diplomat in the country from 2015 until a new ambassador was
appointed in 2016 – who also shown the door following yet another crisis
in relations between the two countries – .Other positions she held at
the ministry include deputy spokesman and head of the ministry’s Arab
Media Department. Oron will replace David Govrin, who has held the Cairo
post since 2016.
Among the other appointments announced on Tuesday was Emmanuel Nahshon, the ministry’s spokesman, who will be going to Brussels.
Prior to taking over as spokesman in 2014, Nahshon held posts in
Germany, and before that in Turkey.Oron was one of four women among nine
new ambassadorial appointments announced on Tuesday.The others include
Rodica Radian- Gordon, named new envoy to Madrid, Spain; Orly Gil, Riga,
Latvia; and Marina Rosenberg, Santiago, Chile.
Radian-Gordon is currently the ministry’s deputy director-general for
Western Europe. A Romanian native, she has served in the past as
Israel’s ambassador in Bucharest, as well as in Mexico City.
Gil has served previously in Nepal and as Israel’s consul general in
Chicago, and Rosenberg has served previously as a political counselor in
Berlin.
The other appointments are Yoram Elron, the deputy director-general for
Africa, who was named ambassador to Sofia, Bulgaria; Boaz Moda’i,
Israel’s former ambassador to Dublin, Ireland, who will be going to
Bratislava, Slovakia; Alex Ben-Zvi, deputy director- general for
Eurasia, who will serve in Warsaw, Poland; and Ran Gidor, currently
Israel’s ambassador in Cameroon, who will be moving to Tbilisi, Georgia.
The appointments now must go to the cabinet for final approval. The new
ambassadors are expected to take up their positions next summer
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