Yuli Kosharovsky, a leading candidate for the post of Israeli ambassador to Moscow, would not be welcome by the Russians, according to the Israeli daily Ha’aretz.
Citing unnamed Israeli aides who met recently with a Russian deputy minister in Moscow, the paper said the Russians’ message is that Kosharovsky, formerly a key figure in Zionist activism among Russian Jews, is regarded unfavorably as a dissident who emigrated.
Kosharovsky ran unsuccessfully as a Likud candidate for the Knesset in the May national elections.
The present envoy to Moscow, Professor Aliza Shenhar, who was appointed by the previous Labor government, ends her two-year contract this autumn, and the new government has indicated that it intends to replace her with its own appointee.
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