Professor Shimon Shamir, an expert on Arab affairs, will be Israel’s next ambassador to Egypt, the Foreign Ministry announced Thursday.
Cairo has already agreed to the appointment, the ministry said. Shamir will take his post at the end of this summer, replacing Moshe Sasson, who has been ambassador to Egypt since 1981.
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