A spokesman from the Israeli Embassy in Cairo appeared this week on Egyptian television for the first time. Israel Tikochinsky was interviewed in Arabic by Umayma Tamim, wife of Osama al-Baz, a senior aide to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Egyptian media, which often agitate against Israel, had avoided speaking to Tikochinsky as they avoided his predecessors.
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