Forty ambassadors to the United Nations are visiting Israel.
The five-day visit this week, which includes Israel’s 70th Independence Day, is being led by Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon.
Among the countries that the visiting ambassadors hail from are Serbia, Jamaica, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Hungary, Liberia, Ukraine, Uganda, Slovenia, Malta, Mozambique and Ethiopia. There are no ambassadors from Arab countries.
The trip includes a visit to the city-settlement of Maale Adumim in the West Bank.
The ambassadors also will be meeting with the President Reuven Rivlin, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, opposition leader Isaac Herzogand other Israeli officials.
The visit, which was planned over several months, is the largest to come to Israel so far. There were nine participants in 2016, and 14 in 2017.
— with JTA
40 UN ambassadors from around the world visit the settlement of Ma’ale Adumim on April 18, 2018. (Ma’ale Adumim spokesman’s office)
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