Israel nominates Eitan Na’eh as 1st ambassador to Bahrain

Israel's then-ambassador to the UAE, Eitan Na'eh, left, talks with an Emirati official during the Global Investment Forum in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on June 2, 2021. (AP/Kamran Jebreili)
Israel's then-ambassador to the UAE, Eitan Na'eh, left, talks with an Emirati official during the Global Investment Forum in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on June 2, 2021. (AP/Kamran Jebreili)

Diplomat Eitan Na’eh is nominated to be Israel’s first ambassador to Bahrain.

Na’eh was the Jewish state’s first diplomat to take up office in the United Arab Emirates following its normalization deal with Israel, serving as chargé d’affairs of the Israeli Embassy in Abu Dhabi.

Na’eh served as envoy to Turkey from 2016 to 2018, until he was expelled by Ankara in protest of the deaths of dozens of Palestinians in violent clashes with Israeli forces on the border with the Gaza Strip.

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