According to Channel 14, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has chosen US-born academic Yechiel Leiter as the next ambassador to Washington.
Leiter was chief of staff to Netanyahu when he was finance minister during Ariel Sharon’s premiership.
His son Maj. (res.) Moshe Yedidyah Leiter, 39, was killed in battle in the northern Gaza Strip on November 10 last year.
Speaking to Israel Hayom, Leiter said that Netanyahu had called him to pay his respects after learning about his son’s death.
“When the prime minister called me this evening to console me, I told him only one thing: ‘Bibi, my son’s blood was not shed in vain. Finish this job. Don’t let any pressure in the world stop you. Because the only consolation of this loss is banishing evil,'” he recounted.
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