The Foreign Ministry says a majority of candidates in its cadet course are women and that the group of 41 budding foreign service officers includes four members of the country’s Druze community and one from the Muslim community.
Many periphery towns are also represented in the course, including Ashkelon, Dalit El Carmel, Bat Yam, Atlit and Horfish, as the Foreign Ministry aims to diversify the diplomats representing Israel.
“The struggle on the diplomatic front in the Swords of Iron War has proven once again the centrality of the Foreign Ministry to the security of the State of Israel,” says Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, who is slated to step down from his post next month.
“The cadets who joined this week are the best sons and daughters of the State of Israel and they represent the entire Israeli society — Jews, Druze and Muslims, representatives of the periphery and central Israel, tech workers and civil service employees.”
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