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Mosby

(17,448 posts)
Thu Apr 6, 2017, 11:47 AM Apr 2017

Israel appoints its first female Muslim diplomat

The Foreign Ministry on Wednesday appointed Rasha Atamny, 31, to represent the Jewish state in Ankara, Turkey, making her Israel’s first female Muslim diplomat.

Atamny, who is completing the final months of the ministry’s cadet course, will serve as the embassy’s first secretary in the influential Muslim nation.

Turkey is an important regional ally for Israel, with strong economic ties. The two countries signed a reconciliation agreement in June, 2016, ending a six-year rift.

Atamny hails from the Arab town of Baqa al-Gharbiya in central Israel, located just inside the pre-1967 Green Line between Israel and the West Bank.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-appoints-its-first-female-muslim-diplomat/

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Israel appoints its first female Muslim diplomat (Original Post) Mosby Apr 2017 OP
cadet class muhamed g May 2017 #1
Ambassadors sabbat hunter May 2017 #2
 

muhamed g

(31 posts)
1. cadet class
Mon May 8, 2017, 09:28 PM
May 2017

If she just finished the cadet class, I hesitate to call her a "diplomat." The headline makes her sound like an ambassador.

sabbat hunter

(6,892 posts)
2. Ambassadors
Sun May 14, 2017, 09:54 PM
May 2017

are often ceremonial, it is the diplomats that do the true work at an embassy with the host country.

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