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Ghassan Majali, Jordan's newly appointed ambassador to Israel. (Screen capture/YouTube)
October 8, 2018, 2:20 pm
New Jordanian ambassador heads to Israel
Ghassan Majali, who previously served as the Hashemite Kingdom’s envoy to Spain, slated to arrive in Tel Aviv on Monday, official Jordan source says
By Adam Rasgon
Ghassan Majali, Jordan's newly appointed ambassador to Israel. (Screen capture/YouTube)
September 20, 2018, 11:13 pm
New Jordanian ambassador to arrive in Israel within days
Jordan earlier this week announced the appointment of Ghassan Majali, who previously served as envoy to Spain
By Adam Rasgon
Ghassan Majali, Jordan's newly appointed ambassador to Israel. (Screen capture/YouTube)
August 22, 2018, 8:30 pm
Jordan submits candidate for next ambassador to Israel to fill vacant post
Amman waiting for Jerusalem’s approval to appoint diplomat Ghassan Majali to serve as next envoy, has yet to receive a response, source says
By Adam Rasgon
Egyptian Ambassador to Israel Hazem Khairat addressing the Herzliya Conference, June 17, 2016 (screen shot)
June 16, 2016, 2:50 pm
Egypt ready to pressure Palestinians on peace process, envoy says
In first public remarks, Ambassador Hazem Khairat also warns ‘continuation of occupation’ causes terror; calls for closing Israel’s nuclear facilities
By Raphael Ahren
President Reuven Rivlin (right) and Jordan's Ambassador to Israel Walid Obeidat, June 16, 2015 (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
June 25, 2015, 5:40 pm
Jordanian papers carry Israeli call to stop praising terror
After op-ed hails ‘heroic’ anti-Israel violence, official Israeli request to refrain from printing ‘barbaric’ articles wins rare resonance
By ToI Staff
President Reuven Rivlin (right) and Jordan's Ambassador to Israel Walid Obeidat, June 16, 2015 (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
June 16, 2015, 11:26 pm
Jordan envoy: Status quo between Israel, Palestinians ‘untenable’
Walid Obeidat says Arab Peace Initiative could be ‘win for all’; President Rivlin praises Hashemite Kingdom as ‘shining light of tolerance and harmony’
By Raphael Ahren
Walid Obeidat (L), the Jordanian ambassador to Israel, toasts with Shimon Peres, at the time the president of Israel, at Obeidat's welcoming ceremony held at the President's residence in Jerusalem. October 17, 2012. (photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/FLASH90)
February 2, 2015, 4:14 pm
Jordan reinstating envoy after recall over Temple Mount tensions
Three months after spat over status of holy site, Ambassador Obeidat slated for return to Israel; Netanyahu welcomes ‘important step’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Jordanian Ambassador to Israel Walid Obeidat, center, at an event marking 20 years of Israeli-Jordanian peace, in Tel Aviv, on October 26, 2014. To his left is Dalia Rabin-Pelossof, daughter of the late prime minister Yitzhak Rabin (photo credit: Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
October 27, 2014, 12:29 am
Jordanian envoy says peace treaty imperiled by settlements
Marking 20 years since historic signing, Walid Obeidat says West Bank expansion and attempts to change status quo on Temple Mount could risk peace
By Raphael Ahren
Finance Minister Yair Lapid, October 20, 2014 (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)
October 26, 2014, 10:59 pm
Lapid warns new settlement plans will ‘harm Israel’s standing in the world’
Centrist, left-wing MKs protest PM’s reported plan for 2,000 homes and other major construction in West Bank; Jordan envoy says building will ‘imperil’ peace treaty
By ToI Staff
US President Bill Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, King Hussein of Jordan at the peace treaty signing ceremony in the Arava Desert, October 1994. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
April 25, 2013, 6:22 am
Jordan’s emboldened Islamist MPs challenge alliance with Israel
Increasingly ‘disobedient’ parliamentarians defy King Abdullah by stepping up hostility to Jewish state
By Elhanan Miller
Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon poses with the new ambassadors of Jordan (left) and Egypt (right) at Jerusalem's King David Hotel, October 17 (photo credit: office of Danny Ayalon)
October 19, 2012, 5:13 pm
A tricky tale of two ambassadors
This week’s dramas in Egypt and Jordan over the dispatch of new envoys to Israel reflect critical dilemmas for the troubled regimes that sent them
By Elhanan Miller
Ambassador Walid Obeidat presents his credentials to Israeli President Shimon Peres, October 17, 2012. (photo credit: Mark Neiman/GPO)
October 18, 2012, 9:18 pm
Jordanian tribe mourns appointment of clansman as ambassador to Israel
The Obeidat clan sets October 17 as an annual day of mourning as Walid Obeidat assumes post
By Elhanan Miller
New Egyptian Ambassador Salem, left, with then-president Shimon Peres in his Jerusalem residence in October 2012 (photo credit: Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
October 17, 2012, 2:31 pm
New Egyptian ambassador brings Israel ‘message of peace’
‘We are really working for mutual trust and transparency,’ Atef Salem tells Peres in Jerusalem, bring letter from Morsi to his ‘great and good friend’; Jordanian envoy also presents credentials
By Raphael Ahren
Jordanians celebrating the country's Independence Day in Amman wave posters of King Abdullah, June 1 (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/FLASH90)
October 2, 2012, 10:00 pm
Jordan’s new ambassador to Israel warned by his tribe not to take the job
The ultimatum given to Walid Obeidat says as much about loyalty to the king as it does about relations with Israel, expert says
By Elhanan Miller
Jordanian flags flying in Ramallah in 2008 (photo credit: Michal Fattal/Flash90)
From the WebOctober 2, 2012, 10:15 am
New Jordanian ambassador to Israel disowned by clan
Ynet: Obeidat tribe says by taking post, Walid Khalid Obeidat crossed ‘all red lines’
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