U.S.-educated diplomat Omar Abdul-Monem Rifai has been nominated to become Jordan’s second ambassador to Israel.
Rifai, 39, a Jordanian Foreign Ministry official and peace negotiator, would replace Marwan Muashar, who was appointed minister of information when a new Jordanian government was named earlier this week.
Rifai worked closely with Israeli officials during the negotiations that resulted in the historic October 1994 Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty.
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