The controversy over who will be Ambassador Eliahu Ben-Elissar’s private secretary remained unresolved as the first Israeli Ambassador to Egypt arrived in Cairo Sunday, accompanied by Fanny Ashkenazi, his personal secretary for the past seven years. A Jerusalem Labor Court decided before their departure that Ms. Ashkenazi could remain in Cairo for three weeks, pending a decision in the angry dispute between Ben-Elissar and the Foreign Ministry’s staff committee.
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