Israel is to have a full Ambassador in South Africa instead of a Charge d’Affaires only as before. News of this was made known here today. The present Charge d’Affaires, Michael Michael, who has the personal rank of Ambassador, will return home in May to be replaced by Yitzhak Unna who will be the first full Ambassador. Unna served for five years in South Africa very successfully as Consul General in Johannesburg till last year. South Africa has a Consul General in Tel Aviv and his rank is also expected to be elevated. Officials here preferred to refer to the new arrangement as a “normalization” and sought to avoid over publicizing it.
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