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Wednesday, August 5, 2015
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Wednesday, August 5, 2015
Settlements leader appointed ambassador to Brazil
West Bank settlement activist Dani Dayan will be Israel’s next ambassador to Brazil, the Prime Minister’s Office says Wednesday.
Israel hopes “to develop trade ties with international markets in South America, with an emphasis on Brazil,” a PMO statement says, noting that Brazil has “the seventh-largest economy in the world.”
Dayan is a former head of the Yesha Council settlement advocacy group and a long-time supporter of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He was born in Argentina in 1955, immigrating to Israel with his family in 1971, at the age of 15.
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