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Thursday, March 23, 2017
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Thursday, March 23, 2017
David Friedman confirmed as US ambassador to Israel
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePresident Donald Trump’s controversial pick to be US envoy to Israel, David Friedman, is confirmed by the Senate in a 52-46 vote that was entirely along party lines.
The 57-year-old bankruptcy attorney, a Hebrew-speaker and longtime friend of the president’s, will now be the United States’ representative to the Jewish state, considered one of the most sensitive diplomatic assignments.
Friedman served along with Jason Dov Greenblatt on Trump’s Israel advisory committee during the campaign, becoming one of his main representatives to the Jewish community and Jewish media.
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