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Jordan’s ambassador to Israel Ghassan Majali [L] with Deputy Director General for Middle East Amb. Haim Regev [R] . (photo credit: FOREIGN MINISTRY)
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Jordan dispatched its new Ambassador Ghassan Majali to Israel this week. Majali presented a copy of his credentials to the Foreign Ministry on Tuesday.
Majali is replacing Walid Obeidat, who served for five years as Jordan’s envoy to Israel.
Majali is a member of a prominent Jordanian family, and served from 2013-2017 as Jordan’s ambassador to Spain.
Foreign Ministry Spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon posted a picture on Twitter of Majali at the Foreign Ministry on Tuesday, and wrote, “The new ambassador of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan HE Ghassan Al Majali at his first meeting at @IsraelMFA with Head of Protocol @AmbMeronReuben and Deputy Director General for Middle East Amb. Haim Regev. Welcome Ambassador and lots of success !!!”
The new ambassador of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan HE Ghassan Al Majali at his first meeting at @IsraelMFA with Head of Protocol @AmbMeronReuben and Deputy Director General for Middle East Amb. Haim Regev. Welcome Ambassador and lots of success !!! @ForeignMinistry pic.twitter.com/Ob1Z36BeTq
— Emmanuel Nahshon (@EmmanuelNahshon) October 9, 2018
The new ambassador’s arrival comes a month after Israel’s new ambassador to Jordan – Amir Weissbrod – presented his credential to King Abdullah II.
The exchange of the new ambassadors puts the formal diplomatic ties between the two countries back on track, 15 months after a stabbing and shooting incident at the Israeli embassy compound in Amman sent ties into a tailspin.
Weissbrod succeeded Einat Schlein, who the Jordanians demanded be replaced following the July 2017 incident when an embassy security official, who was attacked by a man wielding a screwdriver, responded by shooting and killing the assailant and a bystander.
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The guard, Schlein and the embassy staff were returned home shortly afterward, and the Jordanians were infuriated that the guard received a “hero’s welcome” from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with Schlein in attendance.
This put a severe crimp in ties with Jordan, with Amman demanding a trial and compensation.
In August, after Majali’s appointment was announced in Amman, a number of Jordanian parliamentarians — including his cousin, Hazem Majali – demonstrated against appointing a new ambassador to Israel.
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